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Yearling Books, 2003-08-04

All the Way Home

All the Way Home

Patricia Reilly Giff, Author

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9780440411826

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From the author of the Newbery Honor Book "Lily's Crossing" comes this story of a city girl and a country boy, brought together in 1941 through their love of the Brooklyn Dodgers in a winning novel about the transforming power of friendship. Now available in paperback.
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Keywords and Themes: Baseball & Softball • Family • General (see also headings under Family) • Historical • JUV013030 • JUV016150 • JUV032010 • JUV039000 • Juvenile Fiction • Multigenerational • Social Themes • Sports & Recreation • United States - 20th Century

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 169

Subjects • Poliomyelitis • Apples • Friendship • Self-acceptance • Brooklyn (New York • N.Y.)

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family) • Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball • Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century

It's August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn near the Dodgers' home, Ebbets Field. She was adopted by Loretta, a nurse at the hospital, and has never known what happened to her own mother. Someday, somehow, she plans to return to Windy Hill and find out. When a fire destroys their orchard, Brick's parents must leave the farm to find work. They send him to live in Brooklyn with their friend Loretta, even though Brick knows that their elderly neighbors need his help to pick what's left of the apples. The only good thing about Brooklyn is seeing the Dodgers play-that, and his friendship with Mariel. Maybe, together, they'll find a way to return to Windy Hill, save the harvest, and learn the truth about Mariel's past.
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