Just Like That

Name: Just Like That
SKU: 9780544084773
Price: 16.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Gary D. Schmidt

$16.99

SKU: 9780544084773 Categories: Juvenile Fiction, School & Education, Social Issues - Death & Dying, Social Issues - Friendship Tags: JUV035000, JUV039030, JUV039060

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In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.

Just Like That

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