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Smith, Hope Anita

Keeping the Night Watch

74 pp. | Holt | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-7202-0 $18.95
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Thirteen-year-old C.J. (The Way a Door Closes) is having a difficult time after his father returns. In verse, C.J.'s earnest, intelligent voice chronicles the trajectory from abandonment to forgiveness. Smith plays with a variety of poetic forms in this affecting portrait of one family's rebirth. Accompanying the poems are Lewis's watercolors, some breezy and light, others foreboding and furious.
Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2008

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