The Anxious Exile of Sara Salt - Prendergast, Gabrielle
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Speaking up doesn't have to mean using your voice When Sara's little brother is born prematurely and has to stay in the hospital, Sara starts writing him letters. She tells him how her mom and stepdad are sending her to Toronto to stay with her half-sister, Abby. Sara has anxiety and selective mutism, so she has trouble talking to strangers. Luckily, Abby understands. Abby lives in a storage-container house on a vacant lot and hopes to build a whole community of them for unhoused people. When Sara sees that the mayor and the police are making things harder for people who need homes, she…mehr

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Speaking up doesn't have to mean using your voice When Sara's little brother is born prematurely and has to stay in the hospital, Sara starts writing him letters. She tells him how her mom and stepdad are sending her to Toronto to stay with her half-sister, Abby. Sara has anxiety and selective mutism, so she has trouble talking to strangers. Luckily, Abby understands. Abby lives in a storage-container house on a vacant lot and hopes to build a whole community of them for unhoused people. When Sara sees that the mayor and the police are making things harder for people who need homes, she realizes she can be an advocate--through her letters--and that there's more than one way to speak up for what you believe in.
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Gabrielle Prendergast is the bestselling author of numerous books for children and teens. After jobs in the music industry, social welfare and the film industry, Gabrielle began writing books when she became a mother, so she could work from home. Her books have received nominations for the White Pine Award, the Canadian Library Association Award, the Vancouver Book Prize and several other honors. She won the Sheila A. Egoff prize for her YA sci-fi novel Zero Repeat Forever and the Westchester Award for her YA novel in verse, Audacious. Born in the UK and both an Australian and New Zealand citizen, Gabrielle now lives in East Vancouver, British Columbia, in a permanent state of "under construction."