The usual rules

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Label

The usual rules

Statement of responsibility

Joyce Maynard

Creator

• Maynard, Joyce, 1953-
• trueMaynard, Joyce, 1953-

Subject

• Bildungsromans
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• trueBrooklyn, New York City
• trueBrothers and sisters
• trueCalifornia
• California -- Fiction
• trueComing-of-age stories
• Domestic fiction
• trueDomestic fiction
• trueFathers and daughters
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• trueForgiveness
• trueFour-year-old boys
• trueFour-year-olds
• Girls -- Fiction
• trueGrief
• trueGrief in families
• trueHalf-brothers
• trueHealing
• trueLoss (Psychology)
• Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
• trueMothers -- Death
• Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
• trueNew York City
• trueSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Fiction
• trueStepfather and stepdaughter
• trueTeenage girls
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueThirteen-year-old girls
• trueThirteen-year-olds
• Teenagers -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans

Genre

• trueComing-of-age stories
• trueDomestic fiction
• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• trueAdult books for young adults

Language

eng

Summary

A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

Award

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2004

Cataloging source

DLC

Citation source

• Publisher's Weekly
• Booklist
• Kirkus Review

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Adult
• 790

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PS3563.A9638

LC item number

U7 2003

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult