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Too Shattered for Mending
by Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Ages: 14+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf BFYR/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-553-53805-2
Keywords: Orphans, Kindness, Resilience
“Little,” 16, with learning difficulties, struggles to stay at school, feed himself and two friends. Can he come to terms with his very difficult rural life.