![]() ![]() ![]() A subtly told story, echoing the spoken and unspoken thoughts of young people.įrom the February 1971 Horn Book Magazine. The same stones, shaken, no longer made the same design.” Then, one warm night, Charlie, unable to sleep, slipped out in the darkness and disappeared and at the end of an anguished, unforgettable day of searching, Sara knew that she had found even more than a terrified, lost little boy. It was as if her life as a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. “She was doing the same things she had done last summer…and yet everything was different. She experienced a new self-consciousness, a feeling of being clumsy, too tall, and hopelessly unattractive unwillingly she envied the serenity of her pretty, older sister and Charlie, dependent and often importunate, seemed to be a constant concern. Sara, in her fourteenth summer, felt the rhythm of her life break down and anger, confusion, and discontent rush in. Pages can have minimal notes or highlighting. Integrity of the book is in good condition with no missing pages. This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. ![]() But seldom are the pain of adolescence and the tragedy of mental retardation presented as sensitively and as unpretentiously as in the story of Sara and Charlie, the brain-damaged younger brother she loved so protectively. The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (549 results) You searched for: Author: betsy byars, Title: the summer of the swans. The demand for realism in children’s fiction continues to call forth a spate of problem books, some of them relatively successful, some scarcely more literary than case histories. ![]()
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