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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, July 2003
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0689863608
ISBN-13: 9780689863608
Grades: 7 and up
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Newbery Honor Book
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
- ALA Notable Children's Books
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book
- CBC/NCSS Notable Children's Book in Social Studies
- IRA Teachers' Choices
- IRA Young Adults' Choices
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
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Description
A Newbery Honor–winning installment of the Cynthia Voigt’s classic Tillerman series is repackaged with a fresh new look.
Jeff Greene was only seven when he came home from school to find a note from his mother. She felt that the world needed her more than her “grown up” son did. For someone who believed she could see the world’s problems so clearly, she was blind to the heartache and difficulties she pushed upon her son, leaving him with his reserved, undemonstrative father.
So when, years later, she invites Jeff to spend summers with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and a happiness he’s been missing fills him. But Jeff's second visit ends with a devastating betrayal and an aching feeling of loneliness. In life, there can be emotional pits so deep that seemingly nothing will grow—but if he digs a little deeper, Jeff might just come out on the other side.
Jeff Greene was only seven when he came home from school to find a note from his mother. She felt that the world needed her more than her “grown up” son did. For someone who believed she could see the world’s problems so clearly, she was blind to the heartache and difficulties she pushed upon her son, leaving him with his reserved, undemonstrative father.
So when, years later, she invites Jeff to spend summers with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and a happiness he’s been missing fills him. But Jeff's second visit ends with a devastating betrayal and an aching feeling of loneliness. In life, there can be emotional pits so deep that seemingly nothing will grow—but if he digs a little deeper, Jeff might just come out on the other side.
USA Today Honest, controlled and uncompromising.
New York Times Book Review Beautifully written.
Booklist starred review Richly resonant
-- perhaps the best Voigt venture yet.
Bulletin of the Center for Children¹s Books Beautifully knit, a compelling and intelligent novel.
Horn Book A fine achievement.
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