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Following My Own Footsteps
By Hahn, Mary Downing
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39576-477-0
- Publisher
- New York : Clarion Books, c1996.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1996
Gr 4-6 Sixth-grader Gordy Smith flees College Park, MD, with his mother and younger siblings to escape an abusive, alcoholic father, seeking refuge with his affluent maternal grandmother in Grandville, NC. Always an outsider, the boy protects himself from rejection with a veneer of insolence and pugnacity, bragging about his brother Donny who is fighting the Nazis in Germany. He jeopardizes his only friendship when he tries a dangerous experiment to get the boy, a fatherless polio victim, to walk. Donny's return from the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
