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edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback eBook
category: Young Adult Fiction
published: Sep 2008
ISBN:9780888998828
publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

The Saver

by Edeet Ravel

tagged: self-esteem & self-reliance, girls & women, homelessness & poverty
Description

Seventeen-year-old Fern has not had many breaks in life. She struggles at school and lives with her mother in a roach-infested apartment. Then, suddenly, her mother has a heart attack and dies, and Fern is devastated. But she's a survivor, and she's not afraid of hard work. Sidestepping social services, she quits school and sets out to look after herself.

With a little luck and ingenuity and a lot of determination, she manages to live rent-free by becoming a janitor in a crummy apartment building. When she runs out of toothpaste she gets freebies from dentists' offices. Then she tries to juggle two other shift jobs, including one in a restaurant kitchen, so she has access to leftover food. But despite her resourcefulness and resolve, the exhaustion and stress eventually take their toll, until Fern discovers that she is not really on her own after all.

About the Author

Edeet Ravel

EDEET RAVEL is an award-winning author of books for both young readers and adults. Her YA novel, Held, was nominated for the CLA Young Adult Book Award and the Arthur Ellis Crime Award, and her YA novel, The Saver, has been adapted for film and received awards around the world. Her novels for adults have won the Hugh MacLennan Prize and the Jewish Book Award and have been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize. Edeet was born on an Israeli kibbutz and holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from McGill University.

Contributor Notes

Edeet Ravel’s young-adult novel Held was nominated for the CLA Young Adult Book Award and the Arthur Ellis Crime Award. Her YA novel The Saver has been adapted for film and received awards around the globe. Her acclaimed novels for adults have won the Hugh MacLennan Prize and the Jewish Book Award and have been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Giller Prize.

Edeet was born on an Israeli kibbutz and holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from McGill University. She taught for twenty years at McGill, Concordia University and John Abbott College.

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Editorial Reviews

[The protaganist's] determination to find a better place is both understandable and laudable...a strong and clever teenager.

— VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Written as a series of letters to an imaginary friend on another planet, [The Saver is] a compelling story of determination and the will to survive.

— School Library Journal

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