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Firefly

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    Publisher:
    Cormorant Books, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Dowding, Philippa
    Date:
    Created
    2021
    Summary:

    Firefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop.
    Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school.
    But where is “home”? What is “family”? Who is Firefly, for that matter … and which costume is the real one?

    Genre:
    Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction
    Subject(s): Identity (Philosophical concept) | Homeless youth | Homeless persons | Families | Aunts
    Original Publisher: Toronto, DCB
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770865990, 1770865985
    Collection(s)/Series: Governor General's Literary Awards 2021