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The Smell of Other People's Houses
by Bonnie Sue Hitchcock
Ages: 14+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-553-49778-6
Keywords: Divorce, Teen pregnancy, Poverty, Domestic violence, Indigenous peoples
Four teenagers in Alaska confront a variety of hard realities and difficult decisions, but also find loving support - sometimes from unexpected sources. Finely detailed black-and-white illustrations.