Full Product Details
Author: Nancy Steele Brokaw
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.353kg
ISBN: 9780395906996
ISBN 10: 0395906997
Pages: 137
Publication Date: 19 April 1999
Recommended Age: From 10 to 12 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Children / Juvenile
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
Written with simple grace, Brokaw's touching first novel dramatizes a child's helplessness and anger when powerful adults make decisions that change her life.
Written with simple grace, Brokaw's touching first novel dramatizes a child's helplessness and anger when powerful adults make decisions that change her life. Booklist, ALAThe...story of an only child whose special friend Tem is moving away. In addition to the blow of losing her close friend, Emma learns that her father has taken an engineering job in Turkey, and will be gone for five months. Emma exhibits fiercely childish feelings in attempting to dissuade her father; these feelings begin to make sense, however, as readers learn what Emma is in for. Her mother withdraws, as Emma predicted, to her bed and to television, with no apparent thought for Emma's well-being. A sudden burst of cheer on her mother's part results in more bad news for Emma; her mother is joining her father for five weeks, leaving Emma in the care of an elderly aunt. After that unbelievable, cruel twist, Tem all but disappears from the story, which turns to the blossoming of Emma's artistic talents, through which she makes new friends. The novel elevates a common subject, mostly through Emma's original observations...Kirkus Reviews
Written with simple grace, Brokaw's touching first novel dramatizes a child's helplessness and anger when powerful adults make decisions that change her life. Booklist, ALA <br>The...story of an only child whose special friend Tem is moving away. In addition to the blow of losing her close friend, Emma learns that her father has taken an engineering job in Turkey, and will be gone for five months. Emma exhibits fiercely childish feelings in attempting to dissuade her father; these feelings begin to make sense, however, as readers learn what Emma is in for. Her mother withdraws, as Emma predicted, to her bed and to television, with no apparent thought for Emma's well-being. A sudden burst of cheer on her mother's part results in more bad news for Emma; her mother is joining her father for five weeks, leaving Emma in the care of an elderly aunt. After that unbelievable, cruel twist, Tem all but disappears from the story, which turns to the blossoming of Emma's artistic talents, thro
Author Information
Nancy Steele Brokaw lives in Bloomington, Illinois.
