by John Knowles
PRMS hard cover 204 pages
genre: YA coming-of-age, historical fiction 1940s
I can't even remember the protagonist's name! His story is defined by his relationship with Finny (Phineas) while the two teenagers are at Devon in New England during the outset of WWII. I read this because a student in grade 8 LAX was complaining about it and I was curious. There were portions were I was bored, and many I want to go back and re-read. What a rich book! There is much here to discuss. As I was reading it, I thought of Gallagher's Readicide. . . what a book to be careful in neither overteaching nor underteaching. Almost makes me want to be an English teacher again!
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