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115 pp.
| Delacorte |
September, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-385-32704-8$$16.95
(2)
YA
Themes, symbols, people, and places will all be familiar to Cormier fans, yet the effect is fresh and newly intense in this story, told in blank verse, of a summer in which a young boy comes to understand his silent and withdrawn father. Warm and poignant, the story is also a dark and ambivalent drama as the boy finds proof (perhaps) of something he must never reveal about his beloved uncle.
Reviewer: Patty Campbell
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 1999