Little & Lion

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The work Little & Lion represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Little & Lion

Statement of responsibility

by Brandy Colbert

Title variation

Little and Lion

Creator

• trueColbert, Brandy

Author

• trueColbert, Brandy

Subject

• trueInterracial families
• Dating (Social customs) -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- California -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueJewish teenage girls
• trueLos Angeles, California
• Manic-depressive illness -- Juvenile fiction
• trueMental illness
• Mental illness -- Juvenile fiction
• trueStepbrothers and stepsisters
• trueTeenage girls
• trueTeenage romance
• Young adult fiction
• trueAfrican American teenage girls
• trueBipolar disorder
• trueBisexual teenage girls
• trueBisexuality
• Bisexuality -- Juvenile fiction
• Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBrothers and sisters of people with mental illnesses
• trueCalifornia
• California -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Character

• trueAbility diverse
• trueCulturally diverse
• trueLGBTQIA diverse

Award

• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2017.
• Stonewall Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2018.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.
• Rainbow List, 2018.

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 10
• 12

Target audience

adolescent