Just Like That /
Schmidt, Gary D, author.
Just Like That / Gary D. Schmidt. - Large print edition. - Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2021. - 627 pages ; 23 cm
"In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other"--
Ages 10 and up Thorndike Press Grades 4-6 Thorndike Press
9781432886875
2021931593
Death--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Large type books.
FIC SCH
Just Like That / Gary D. Schmidt. - Large print edition. - Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2021. - 627 pages ; 23 cm
"In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other"--
Ages 10 and up Thorndike Press Grades 4-6 Thorndike Press
9781432886875
2021931593
Death--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Large type books.
FIC SCH