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Teacher’s Guide
Aug 01, 1993 | ISBN 9780440408093 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jul 01, 2009 | ISBN 9780307567796 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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Aug 01, 1993 | ISBN 9780440408093 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Jul 01, 2009 | ISBN 9780307567796 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Journey is eleven 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 hunts family resemblances in Grandma’s albums. 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 inevitability of his mother’s departure and the love that still binds his family.
Patricia Maclachlan, the author of numerous picture books and novels for children, is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel Sarah, Plain and Tall. Her other works include Journey, Baby, Waiting for the Magic, and Kindred Souls. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she attended the University of Connecticut and… More about Patricia Maclachlan
Maine Student Book Master List WINNER 1992
Texas Bluebonnet Master List WINNER 1993
Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award NOMINEE 1994
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