{"product_id":"lena-isbn-9780142417331","title":"Lena","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling story of survival from a four-time Newbery Honor winning author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the end of \u003ci\u003eI Hadn't Meant to Tell You This\u003c\/i\u003e, Lena and her younger sister, Dion, set off on their own, desperate to escape their abusive father. Disguised as boys, they hitchhike along, traveling in search of their mother's relatives. They don't know what they will find, or who they can trust along the way, but they do know that they can't afford to make even one single mistake. Dramatic and moving, this is a heart-wrenching story of two young girls in search of a place to call home.\"This taut story never loses its grip on the reader.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lena's rough voice . . . speaks eloquently for the tenacity of the human spirit. . . . Once again, Woodson writes . . . about difficult issues of childhood and leaves readers encouraged by humanity's potential for insight, compassion and hope.\"--\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tender and loving story of . . . encountering much goodness in the world as well as ultimately a place to belong in it.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e, Recommended\u003cb\u003eJacqueline Woodson\u003c\/b\u003e (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books \u003ci\u003eRed at the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner \u003ci\u003eBefore the Ever After; New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Day You Begin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarbor Me\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEach Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, Caldecott Honor book \u003ci\u003eComing On Home Soon\u003c\/i\u003e; Newbery Honor winners \u003ci\u003eFeathers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShow Way\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfter Tupac and D Foster\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMiracle's Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.An Excerpt from \u003ci\u003e Lena:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"You crying, Lena?\" I felt Dion's little hand on my shoulder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"What would I be crying for?\" I gave my eyes one more wipe and glared \u003cbr\u003e        at her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Dion shrugged. She took a step back from me, hunkered down on her own \u003cbr\u003e        knapsack. We must have been a sight--two kids in flannel shirts and jeans \u003cbr\u003e        and hiking boots at a Trailways station--Dion chewing on her collar, me \u003cbr\u003e        with my head in my hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        She swallowed like she was a little bit scared of what she was gonna say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"Where we going, Lena? You tell me that and I won't ask you anything else--ever \u003cbr\u003e        again if you don't want me to.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        People on the outside who didn't understand would probably look at me \u003cbr\u003e        and Dion and say, \"Those kids running away from home.\" But I knew we were \u003cbr\u003e        running \u003ci\u003e to \u003c\/i\u003e something. And to someplace far away from Daddy. Someplace \u003cbr\u003e        safe. That's where we were going.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"Mama's house,\" I whispered, my voice coming out hoarse and shaky. \"We \u003cbr\u003e        going to Mama's house.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Dion shook her head. \"Not the lies we tell people--the true thing. Where \u003cbr\u003e        we going for real?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"Mama's house,\" I said again, looking away from her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"Lena?\" Dion said \"Mama's . . . \u003ci\u003e dead.\" \u003c\/i\u003e. . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e        \". . .I know she's dead. I didn't say we were going to her. I said we \u003cbr\u003e        were going to her house.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"And what's gonna happen when we get there?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \"You said you wasn't gonna ask no more questions, Dion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Dion nodded and pulled her book out of her knapsack. I took a box of colored \u003cbr\u003e        pencils out of mine and the brown paper bag our sandwiches had come in \u003cbr\u003e        and started sketching. I sketched the cornfields across the way from us \u003cbr\u003e        and a blue car moving in front of them. I sketched the sky with the pink \u003cbr\u003e        still in it and Dion sitting on her knapsack reading. Maybe we sat there \u003cbr\u003e        an hour. Maybe two or three...We'd learned how to make ourselves invisible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        ","brand":"Nancy Paulsen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304672743653,"sku":"NP9780142417331","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142417331.jpg?v=1767731300","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lena-isbn-9780142417331","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}