Book description
Archer King is thirteen years old in the midst of the historic upheavals of 1970 America. After his mother’s mysterious death, his father remarries and he gains a stepsister—the barefoot, braless, hand-on-hip seventeen-year-old, Billie Armstrong, whose larger-than-life personality and radical politics open Archer’s eyes to new ideas (and feelings) but…
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So many amazing books find their ways out into the world in nontraditional ways. One of these is my top pick for 2025: The Blues and Billie Armstrong by Roy Dufrain.
This coming-of-age tale about a boy uncovering family secrets in small-town Northern California, and later, that boy become a man at last forced to confront the mysteries of his own past, hit my sweet spot in so many ways. Roy’s language grips you by the throat and won’t let go. His colorful and true-to-life characters leap off the page and into your heart, thrilling and disappointing you at every…
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