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
Publisher: Books on Tape
Imprint: Books on Tape
ISBN: 9780739348062
ISBN 10: 073934806
Publication Date: 21 November 2006
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Downloadable audio file
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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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 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 The dialogue is sharp, carrying a good part of this story of friends and foes, guilt and courage. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred From the Paperback edition.
