I'll Be Watching Contributor(s): Porter, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1554980968 ISBN-13: 9781554980963 Publisher: Groundwood Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Orphans & Foster Homes - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance |
Dewey: FIC |
Age Level: 14-UP |
Grade Level: 9-UP |
Lexile Measure: 880(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Chronological Period - 1940's - Geographic Orientation - Saskatchewan - Topical - Family - Topical - Self-Esteem |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/2011 pg. 86 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2011 - Book Of Special Distinction |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 146888 Reading Level: 5.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the author of The Crazy Man In a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else's business. It's common knowledge that the Loney family has been barely hanging on, but when the Loney children's father George dies in a drunken stupor and their stepmother takes off with a traveling Bible salesman, it looks as though the children are done for. Who's to save them when everyone is coping with their own problems -- the lingering Depression and the loss of the town's young men to the Second World War? Under the watchful eye of their ghostly parents and through the small kindnesses of a few neighbors, but mostly by dint of their own determination and ingenuity, the Loney children survive. I'll Be Watching is an extremely powerful story of children at risk because of adult hypocrisy, indifference, self-interest, and outright immorality, all cloaked in a self-righteous exterior. |
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