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Publication
Dial (2008), Hardcover, 194 pages
Description
Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
Media reviews
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ray is a boy from the wrong side of the tracks with a passion for reading and a desire to better himself: a familiar figure from a library's worth of books. To his credit, debut author Paul Griffin takes this character and a few other cliches and does some interesting things with
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them.
The most powerful feature of the book is the friendship between the boys, captured in all its contradictions. The loyalty that is so often portrayed as wholly positive has its downfalls here. This and the open ending are just two of the complexities that raise Ten Mile River above the ordinary. Show Less
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LibraryThing member CarmellaLee
Personal Response: Ten Mile River brings a story of teens who are surviving in the absence of elders, who survive despite people offering to help them. Interesting modern take on the homeless, juvenile delinquency and runaways of today.
Curricular or Programming Connections: The effect of homeless,
Curricular or Programming Connections: The effect of homeless,
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juvenile delinquents as runaways in society. Show Less
LibraryThing member EdselC.B1
The ten mile river is a book about people not an type of people bad people. These people are some of the worst and most dangerous people in the world. These people live in a town out side the city were the river takes them away. The book doesnt put their names beacuse they are so bad you cannt know
the ten mile river is are really good book but getting into the middle it becomes really really bad. I mean its just like the book became trash i really liked it but it is bad. Also they all have dog they dont say why i dont get it why do they all have dogs. Also why do they all get hair cuts i dont get it are they part of the mafia or what. An why dont they say there name they only said one name just one why. Over all i think it was really good it wasnt bad at all. Even tho it became really bad but it became really good .
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them. All of them have to have there hair cut has to be red. Also they have to ave dogs and they do things so they can live. They also have to have dogs for some resson.the ten mile river is are really good book but getting into the middle it becomes really really bad. I mean its just like the book became trash i really liked it but it is bad. Also they all have dog they dont say why i dont get it why do they all have dogs. Also why do they all get hair cuts i dont get it are they part of the mafia or what. An why dont they say there name they only said one name just one why. Over all i think it was really good it wasnt bad at all. Even tho it became really bad but it became really good .
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Awards
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 9-12 — 2010)
Physical description
194 p.; 8.32 inches
ISBN
0803732848 / 9780803732841