In a manner similar to Cynthia Rylant's in Waiting to Waltz and Lee Bennett Hopkins' Been to Yesterdays, Cormier uses spare, blank verse to recreate the characters, mainly family, in one summer in the life of Eugene, a lonely twelve year old whose father works in the comb factory. We get to know his extended family as he comes to understand and appreciate each one. Summary: Frenchtown Summer is a semi autobiographical book by Robert Cormier the book is written in free verse and centers on Eugene as he delivers papers on his paper route around his hometown. He notices things that seem to go unnoticed by others. He wonders whether his father who is /5. FRENCHTOWN SUMMER was one of Cormier's last books, published in He died the following year, at Cormier wrote nearly twenty books for young adults. His best known book was THE CHOCOLATE WAR, often a cause for censorship and contention in school and community libraries/5(10).
Frenchtown Summer Robert Cormier, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Heroes; In the Middle of the. Find Frenchtown Summer by Cormier, Robert at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Like Heroes, most of Cormier's other novels deal with childhood and coming of age, often complicated by violence or www.doorway.ru (like Frenchtown Summer and Fade) are also set in the fictitious Massachusetts town of www.doorway.ru there have been many books written about soldiers returning from wars, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried stands out for its treatment of the challenges.
Title: Frenchtown Summer (Puffin Teenage Books S.) Author(s): Robert Cormier ISBN: / (UK edition) Publisher: Puffin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA. In a manner similar to Cynthia Rylant's in Waiting to Waltz and Lee Bennett Hopkins' Been to Yesterdays, Cormier uses spare, blank verse to recreate the characters, mainly family, in one summer in the life of Eugene, a lonely twelve year old whose father works in the comb factory. We get to know his extended family as he comes to understand and appreciate each one. Publisher Description. Eugene is remembering the summer of in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.”. Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the.
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