The Broken Bridge

The Broken Bridge is unlike any other Philip Pullman book I have read. It has no fantasy, no exciting historical time period, no talking animals... but of course, since Pullman wrote it, it is excellent.

The Broken Bridge is about Ginny Howard. Ginny is a girl from Wales who lives with her father in a small beach town. She feels different from the people around her but know that she and her father are a great family. They get along well and share everything. At least that is what Ginny thought, until one day she finds out that she has a brother. Robert is Ginny's half-brother. They have different mothers. And if Ginny didn't already feel different being only one of two black people in town, her new white brother would make her feel awkward anyway.

Ginny and Robert do not like each other. But they decide to put their differences aside to try and find out what really happened - how they could have not known about each other.

Pullman, Philip. (1992). The Broken Bridge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

YA.