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Hyde, Catherine Ryan,.
Have you seen Luis Velez? :
a novel /
Catherine Ryan Hyde.
Seattle :
Lake Union Publishing,
2019.
307 pages ;
22 cm.
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Includes book club questions.
"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, has been alone since her caretaker disappeared. She turns to Raymond for help, and as he tries to track Luis down, a deep and unexpected friendship blossoms between the two. Despondent at the loss of Luis, Mildred isolates herself further from a neighborhood devolving into bigotry and fear. Determined not to let her give up, Raymond helps her see that for every terrible act the world delivers, there is a mirror image of deep kindness, and Mildred helps Raymond see that there's hope if you have someone to hold on to."--Back cover.
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Teenage boys
Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys
Fiction.
Older people
Juvenile fiction.
Friendship
Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Friendship
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Old age
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