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If You Come Softly

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions.

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  • "After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions."@en
  • "After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions."
  • "Jeremiah, le garçon noir de Brooklyn, fils unique d'un réalisateur et d'une romancière, et Ellie, la Juive du quartier huppé, s'aiment dès le premier regard, malgré les préjugés..."
  • "A heartbreaking contemporary romance from a three-time Newbery Honor winning author Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock and after that they know they fit together -- even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. Reviewers have called Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson's work "exceptional" (Publishers Weekly) and "wrenchingly honest" (School Library Journal), and have said "it offers a perspective on racism and elitism rarely found in fiction for this age group" (Publishers Weekly). In If You Come Softly, she delivers a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only...""@en
  • "After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions."@en
  • "After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions."
  • "Cette histoire d'amour tragique entre Jeremiah, adolescent noir, et Ellie, adolescente juive, dans un nouveau lycée huppé de Manhattan est un réquisitoire contre la discrimination raciale."
  • "De zwarte Miah en de joodse Ellie beleven op hun bijzondere school in New York hun eerste liefde."
  • "Elli und Miah leben in New York und gehen in dieselbe Schule. Elli und Miah lieben sich. Sie ist weiss und er ist schwarz und ausserhalb der Schule leben sie in verschiedenen Welten. Eine wunderbare und bitter-süsse Liebesgeschichte. (Quelle: dg)."

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  • "Histoires d'amour"
  • "Jugendbuch"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Love stories"
  • "Romance"

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  • "If You Come Softly"@en
  • "Mon bel amour-- ma déchirure"
  • "Zacht als de wind"
  • "Wenn die Zeit stehen bleibt"
  • "Mon bel amour"
  • "İlk bakışta aşk : roman"
  • "Mon bel amour ... ma dechirure"
  • "If you come softly"@en
  • "If you come softly"

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