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Trowbridge Road

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

A beautifully written middle-grade novel that tackles heavy issues like mental illness, grief and neglect head-on. After June Bug's father dies at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, she's left alone with her mother who is reeling with grief and can no longer properly care for her daughter. June Bug forms an unlikely friendship with her neighbor, Ziggy, who is dealing with familial issues of his own. Heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful, Trowbridge Road is a story about the comfort of found family and the healing power of love.

A 2020 National Book Award Long List Selection
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020
A Reading Group Choices Best Book of 2020
A Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020

In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage.


It’s the summer of ’83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father’s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead...