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Run for Your Life (Yonder) by Silvana Gandolfi, Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A 2019 Batchelder Honor Book 2021 Global Literature in Libraries Translated YA Book Prize Shortlist From one of Italy's favorite authors of young adult literature comes a gripping, true-to-life thriller of a Sicilian boy's fight to survive after his family is torn apart by the Mafia. A talented young runner, Santino lives in Palermo, Sicily—a beautiful region of Italy that's dominated by the Mafia. With Santino's first communion approaching, his father and grandfather carry out a theft to pay for the party—but they steal from the wrong people. A young, cocky Mafioso summons them to a meeting, and they bring the boy. As Santino wanders off into the old abandoned neighborhood, he hears shots and runs back to see two armed men and his father and grandfather slumped over in the car. The boy barely escapes with his life. Now, he's left with a choice: cooperate with police and be a "rat," or maintain Omertà: the code of silence. Twelve-year-old Lucio lives in the northern Italian city of Livorno and dreams of sailing when not taking care of his his young sister, Ilaria, and his sick mother, who is convinced that a witch has cursed her. One day, Lucio's mother goes missing and he receives

Who reads Run for Your Life (Yonder)?

Author

Silvana Gandolfi, Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Publisher

Yonder/Restless Books for young readers

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781632061652

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Adventure, Fiction, Literary Fiction