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But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams

Hardcover / Paperback - This 2007 Newbery Honor Book is a humorous and heartwarming debut about feeling different and finding acceptance

A Bend in the River Cover:Paperback and there is the richestIn the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one manan Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and