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03017cam a22005778a 4500 001 9D5C6B9A6BFF11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20211120010853 007 ta 008 081021s2007 nyu 000 1 eng 020 $a 0307278093 020 $a 9780307278098 040 $d SILO $d SILO 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 22 100 1 $a Brown, Carrie, $d 1959- 245 1 $a The rope walk / $c Carrie Brown. 260 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, $c 2007. 300 $a 321 p. ; 520 $a 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. 586 $a All Iowa Reads choice 2008 600 10 $a Lewis, Meriwether, $d 1774-1809. $t Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Girls $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American boys $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship in children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Intergenerational relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a AIDS (Disease) $x Patients $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Summer $v Fiction. 650 0 $a People with visual disabilities $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Oral reading $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Motherless families $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Vermont $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd. 941 $a 17 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430011530.0 952 $l NXPA663 $d 20201013120419.0 952 $l NUPD663 $d 20201013113201.0 952 $l NTPC983 $d 20201013111525.0 952 $l NNPA983 $d 20201013103916.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20201013042244.0 952 $l DQPA403 $d 20201013025054.0 952 $l AQPC277 $d 20200728015639.0 952 $l CDPC522 $d 20191119013939.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719031955.0 952 $l DZPB423 $d 20180713031316.0 952 $l NSPC983 $d 20180711033432.0 952 $l MDPA423 $d 20180627024705.0 952 $l KLPC566 $d 20171216011137.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20150404020435.0 952 $l WYPA305 $d 20120111155044.0 $m WYPA305 952 $l VVPA454 $d 20100223220232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D5C6B9A6BFF11DEA13FF332A8D7520AInitiate Another SILO Locator Search