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Kicking the Sky

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It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood's dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. 
As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoeshine Boy murder, Antonio sees his immigrant family—and his Portuguese neighborhood—with new eyes, becoming aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him. So intent are his parents and his neighbors on keeping the old traditions alive that they act as if they still live in a small village, not in a big city that puts their kids in the kind of danger they would not dare imagine.
Antonio learns about bravery and cowardice, life and death, and the heart's capacity for love—and for cruelty—in this stunning novel.


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Publisher: Algonquin Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: March 25, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781616203931
  • Release date: March 25, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781616203931
  • File size: 1707 KB
  • Release date: March 25, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781616203931
  • File size: 799 KB
  • Release date: March 25, 2014

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It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood's dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. 
As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoeshine Boy murder, Antonio sees his immigrant family—and his Portuguese neighborhood—with new eyes, becoming aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him. So intent are his parents and his neighbors on keeping the old traditions alive that they act as if they still live in a small village, not in a big city that puts their kids in the kind of danger they would not dare imagine.
Antonio learns about bravery and cowardice, life and death, and the heart's capacity for love—and for cruelty—in this stunning novel.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Algonquin Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: March 25, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781616203931
    Release date: March 25, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781616203931
    File size: 1707 KB
    Release date: March 25, 2014

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781616203931
    File size: 799 KB
    Release date: March 25, 2014

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    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
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