Find Layla, a novel, Meg Elison
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Find Layla, a novel, Meg Elison
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eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Find Layla
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Meg Elison
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and steer clear of her unstable mother. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame. With a borrowed video camera, she captures it all. The mushrooms growing in her brother's dresser. The black mold blooming up the apartment walls. The unmentionable things living in the dead fridge. All the inevitable exotic toxins that are Layla's life. Then the video goes viral. When Child Protective Services comes to call, Layla loses her family and her home. Defiant, she must face her bullies and friends alike, on her own. Unafraid at last of being seen, Layla accepts the mortifying reality of visibility. Now she has to figure out how to stay whole and stand behind the truth she has shown the world
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
- Young adult works
- Roman pour jeunes adultes
- Low-income high school students
- Social media
- Teenage girls
- Domestic fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Child abuse
- Élèves du secondaire à faible revenu -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Californie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- California -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
- Enfants -- Violence envers -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- California
- Social media -- Fiction
- Bullying -- Fiction
- Bullying -- Juvenile fiction
- Médias sociaux -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Young adult fiction
- Social media -- Juvenile fiction
- California -- Fiction
- Low-income high school students -- Fiction
- Low-income high school students -- Juvenile fiction
- Adolescentes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Child abuse -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
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Author
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- Has instance3
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject31
- Young adult works
- Roman pour jeunes adultes
- Low-income high school students
- Social media
- Teenage girls
- Domestic fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Child abuse
- Élèves du secondaire à faible revenu -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Californie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- California -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
- Enfants -- Violence envers -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- California
- Social media -- Fiction
- Bullying -- Fiction
- Bullying -- Juvenile fiction
- Médias sociaux -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Young adult fiction
- Social media -- Juvenile fiction
- California -- Fiction
- Low-income high school students -- Fiction
- Low-income high school students -- Juvenile fiction
- Adolescentes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Child abuse -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1