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Journey

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By Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Journey
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Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.Journey searches photographs for answers. He looks for family resemblances in Grandmas slbums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs his grandfather takes as the older man attempts to provide Journey with a past. In the process, the boy learns to look and finds that, for him, the camera is a means of finding things his naked eye has missedthings like the inevitability of his mothers departure and the love that still binds his family.In this spare and remarkable novel, Patricia MacLachlan explores abandonment and the extraordinary means by which a family reassembles itself.

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12809 words12,809 words
96 pages96 pages
Lexile 630LLexile 630L
Grade 4 to 8Grade 4 to 8
Age 9-13Age 9-13
Published 1991Published 1991

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Book ISBN:

0385304277

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