Touching Snow

This M. Sindy Felin’s National Book Award finalist is a powerful debut novel about fourteen-year-old Karina's struggle to save her family—and herself—from her abusive stepfather.

Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal—again. But she’s too busy dodging the fists of her stepfather and looking out for her sisters to deal with school. This is the story ...