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December Stillness
Contributor(s): Hahn, Mary Downing (Author)

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ISBN: 0380707640     ISBN-13: 9780380707645
Publisher: Harperteen
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1990
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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?

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings
- Young Adult Fiction | Family - Parents
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 88002572
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Lexile Measure: 860(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 3.99" W x 7.06" L (0.20 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 08/01/1998 pg. 1991
Publishers Weekly 09/28/1990
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 560
Reading Level: 5.1   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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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?


Contributor Bio(s): Hahn, Mary Downing: -

Mary Downing Hahn is the best-selling author of more than twenty award-winning books for young readers, including Stepping on the Cracks, which won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Anna on the Farm is the follow-up to Anna All Year Round, both based on the author's mother's memoirs about growing up in Maryland pre-World War I.


 
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