Emily Beam's boyfriend takes his own life after they break up due to Emily's pregnancy, and her parents' pressure to get an abortion. Wounded deeply, Emily transfers to Amherst boarding school, where the spirit of Emily Dickinson helps her find healing and expression in poetry.
year: 2014, 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: boarding schools, juvenile fiction, high schools, schools, suicide, interpersonal relations, amherst (mass.), juvenile fiction, fiction, private schools, fiction, school stories, poetry, fiction, fictoin, amherst (ma), fiction
Editions
Hubbard, Jenny
Delacorte Press (2014)
Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and begins to heal.
Schools: 18
Hubbard, Jenny
Emily Beam's boyfriend takes his own life after they break up due to Emily's pregnancy, and her parents' pressure to get an abortion. Wounded deeply, Emily transfers to Amherst boarding school, where the spirit of Emily Dickinson helps her find healing and expression in poetry.
Schools: 14
Hubbard, Jenny
Ember (2015)
Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and begins to heal.
Schools: 0