Just like that / Gary D. Schmidt.
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. 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.
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- ISBN: 9781432886875
- Physical Description: 627 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Companyt, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.9 15 510307. |
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Genre: | Large print books. Bildungsromans. |
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Caruthersville Public Library | LP YA SCH (Text) | 38417100536327 | Young Adult | Available | - |