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Frenchtown Summer

by Robert Cormier
Dan Krovatin
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Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys’ trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world–the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier’s touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son’s connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.
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Publisher: Random House Children's Books

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  • Release date: February 18, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9780307556288
  • Release date: February 18, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9780307556288
  • File size: 2827 KB
  • Release date: February 18, 2009
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subjects

Poetry Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:6.4
Lexile® Measure:1380
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:11-12

Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys’ trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world–the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier’s touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son’s connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.
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Poetry Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature
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