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Frenchtown summer

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 1999. ©1999
Edition/Format:  Print book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.
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Genre/Form: Novels
Fiction
Juvenile works
Juvenile fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Cormier, Robert.
Frenchtown summer.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607401994
Material Type: Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Cormier
ISBN: 0385327048 9780385327046
OCLC Number: 40776692
Awards: Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Young Adult Fiction) 1999
Description: 113 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Robert Cormier.
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A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

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A nice addition to any library.

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2009-06-08) Good Permalink

     I loved the way it was written - few words said so much in describing the summer of a 10 year old boy - his relationship with his parents - different deaths in the town, people coming into and leaving your life and how you feel longing for acceptance and in the end finding...
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