Awards

• Commended for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2012
• Commended for Tayshas Reading 2010
• Short-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Young Adult) 2011
• Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2012

Overview

"Read Thalia Chaltas's posts on the Penguin Blog. Anke's father is abusive. But not to her. He attacks her brother and sister, but she's just an invisible witness in a house of horrors, on the brink of disappearing altogether. Until she makes the volleyball team at school. At first just being exhausted after practice feels good, but as Anke becomes part of the team, her confidence builds. When she learns to yell ""Mine!"" to call a ball, she finds a voice she didn't know existed. For the first time, Anke is seen and heard. Soon, she's imagining a day that her voice will be loud enough to rescue everyone at home--including herself."

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"As a teenager Thalia Chaltas wanted to do ""everything,"" and she envied people who knew without question what their life goal was. Thalia did preliminary training to be a kinesiologist, a helicopter pilot, and a fire fighter, and has at times been a bus driver, a ropes course instructor, and a contralto in an a capella group. Along the way she has played lots of volleyball, written poetry, and collected children's books. And eventually, that anvil fell from the sky and she realized writing was what all this previous intensive training was for. She has kept every poem she has ever written - except one. Because she can't find it. Thalia lives in California with her daughter. ""Because I Am Furniture "" is her first novel."

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