December Stillness

QUESTIONS

Sensitive and idealistic fifteen-year-old Kelly McAllisterfeels at odds with everyone around her. Her best friendhas suddenly turned boy crazy. Her talented mothercreates greeting card designs instead of real art, andher father never talks to her about anything exceptworking hard and getting ahead.

That's why Kelly becomes so involved in the plight of ahomeless Vietnam vet who takes refuge in the libraryeach day. Interviewing him began as a Social Studiesproject, but it takes on new meaning after her offers offood and friendship backfire into a real disaster.What had the war done to destroy this man? And whathad it done to her own father, who had been to thesame war ... and refuses to speak of it?

Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 09/01/1990
ISBN: 9780380707645
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.06h x 3.99w x 0.52d

Review Citations: Booklist 08/01/1998 pg. 1991
Publishers Weekly 09/28/1990

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 560 / December Stillness
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6