Journey - Hardcover

MacLachlan, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385304277 ISBN 13: 9780385304276

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia MacLachlan was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1938. After graduating from the University of Connecticut she became an English teacher and pursued a writing career. She won the Newbery Medal in 1986 for her book Sarah, Plan and Tall. She lives in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

From the Inside Flap:

leven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.

Journey searches photographs for answers. He looks for family resemblances in Grandma's slbums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs his grandfather takes as the older man attempts to provide Journey with a past. In the process, the boy learns to look and finds that, for him, the camera is a means of finding things his naked eye has missed--things like the inevitability of his mother's departure and the love that still binds his family.

In this spare and remarkable novel, Patricia MacLachlan explores abandonment and the extraordinary means by which a family reassembles itself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0385304277
• ISBN 13: 9780385304276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 83
• Illustrator: Moser Barry