Overview
Francine lives down the street from a Hollywood film studio, adores screen dreamboat Montgomery Clift, and sometimes sees her home life as a scene from a movie: Dinner at the Greens. She wishes she were a movie star, brave and glamorous and always ready to say the right thing. In reality, she s a pink and freckled thirteen-year-old, and she doesn t speak up because she s afraid she ll get in trouble. She s comfortable following her father s advice: Don t get involved. That is, until Sophie Bowman transfers into her class at All Saints School for Girls. Fearless, articulate, and passionate, Sophie questions authority and protests injustice. She not only doesn t care about getting in trouble, she actually seems to be looking for it. And she s happy to be Francine s best friend.The nuns think Sophie is a bad influence on Francine. Francine thinks just the opposite. Because of Sophie, Francine finds herself worrying about things that never bothered her before the atom bomb, free speech, Communists, the blacklist . . . and deciding, for the first time, that she wants to be heard. From the Audio Download edition.
Full Product Details
Author: Karen Cushman ,
Anaka Shockley
Publisher: Listening Library
Imprint: Listening Library
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 15.50cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780739337936
ISBN 10: 0739337939
Publication Date: 21 November 2006
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
Cushman's latest historical novel captures the terrors and confusions of the McCarthy era. . . . An integrated, affecting novel about friendship and growing up. . . . Questions about patriotism, activism, and freedom bring the novel right into today's most polarizing controversies. --Booklist, Starred <br> Cushman creates another introspective female character who is planted firmly in her time and who grows in courage, self-awareness, and conviction. --School Library Journal, Starred <br> The dialogue is sharp, carrying a good part of this story of friends and foes, guilt and courage. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred <p> From the Paperback edition.
Cushman's latest historical novel captures the terrors and confusions of the McCarthy era. . . . An integrated, affecting novel about friendship and growing up. . . . Questions about patriotism, activism, and freedom bring the novel right into today's most polarizing controversies. --Booklist, Starred<br><br> Cushman creates another introspective female character who is planted firmly in her time and who grows in courage, self-awareness, and conviction. --School Library Journal, Starred<br><br> The dialogue is sharp, carrying a good part of this story of friends and foes, guilt and courage. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred<br><br><br> From the Paperback edition.
Author Information
<b>Karen Cushman</b> is the author of the Newbery Medal book <i>The Midwife s Apprentice</i>, the Newbery Honor book <i>Catherine, Called Birdy</i>, and <i>Matilda Bone</i>, all set in medieval England and available on audio from Listening Library. Francine Green is the third Cushman protagonist whose story is set in the USA, joining Rodzina and Lucy Whipple.
