Summer captive

By Pollock, Penny

Publishers Summary:
With his mother in the hospital for six weeks, fourteen-year-old Jesse finds his gruff father trying to control more and more of his life and feels their stormy relationship building to an explosion.

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ISBN
978-0-93691-506-7
Publisher
Belvidere, N.J. : Shoe Tree Press ; c1987.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on January 1, 1988

Gr 6-9 When Jesse Wellington's mother is seriously injured in an auto accident, Jesse and his father, who have a poor relationship, have to deal with each other without a buffer. The older man is a martinet who refuses to believe that his son can do anything right. Jesse is a good runner and knows a great deal about birds, but he is very much afraid of his father and his own upcoming freshman year in high school. His father "vo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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