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Author:

Brown, Carrie, 1959-

Title:

The rope walk / Carrie Brown.

Publisher:

Anchor Books,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

321 p. ;

Subject:

Lewis, Meriwether,--1774-1809.--Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
African American boys--Fiction.
Friendship in children--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.
Summer--Fiction.
People with visual disabilities--Fiction.
Oral reading--Fiction.
Motherless families--Fiction.
Vermont--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Summary:

The story of a pivotal summer in the life of Alice, a redheaded tomboy and motherless girl who is beloved and protected by her five older brothers and her widower father, a professor of Shakespeare. On Memorial Day, at her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before. Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer. Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come to convalesce with his middle-aged sister. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and, almost as quickly, find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial Kenneth. When the children begin a daily routine of reading aloud to the artist, who is losing his eyesight, they discover the journals of Lewis and Clark and decide to embark on their own wilderness adventure: they plan and secretly build a "rope walk" through the woods for Kenneth and in the process learn the first of many hard truths about the way adults see the world, no matter that they are often wrong.

ISBN:

0307278093
9780307278098

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

NNPA983 -- Fertile Public Library (Fertile)

DZPB423 -- Hubbard Public Library (Hubbard)

AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

VVPA454 -- Lime Springs Public Library (Lime Springs)

NSPC983 -- Manly Public Library (Manly)

NTPC983 -- Northwood Public Library (Northwood)

NUPD663 -- Osage Public Library (Osage)

CDPC522 -- Solon Public Library (Solon)

NXPA663 -- Stacyville Public Library (Stacyville)

MDPA423 -- Steamboat Rock Public Library (Steamboat Rock)

WYPA305 -- Terril Public Library (Terril) — WYPA305

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)

KLPC566 -- West Point Public Library (West Point)

DQPA403 -- Williams Public Library (Williams)