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221 pp.
| Tundra |
October, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-88776-441-X$$14.95
(1)
YA
Each chapter is introduced with the actual diary entries of a sixteen-year-old boy who spent the summer at his relatives' Canadian lakeside cottage in 1904. Johnston's chapters flesh out his bare-bones entries to create an endearing and enduring fictional character, who grows from liking himself not at all to a quiet self-confidence and assertiveness. A technically impressive and, more importantly, affecting novel.