All the Way Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440411826)

It's August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn near the Dodgers' home, Ebbets Field. She was adopted by Loretta, a nurse at the hospital, and has never known what happened to her own mother. Someday, somehow, she plans to return to Windy Hill and find out. When a fire destroys their orchard, Brick's parents must leave the farm to find work. They send him to live in Brooklyn with their friend Loretta, even though Brick knows that their elderly neighbors need his help to pick what's left of the apples. The only good thing about Brooklyn is seeing the Dodgers play-that, and his friendship with Mariel. Maybe, together, they'll find a way to return to Windy Hill, save the harvest, and learn the truth about Mariel's past.

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN-10: 0440411823
ISBN-13: 9780440411826
Publisher: Yearling Books
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2003
Pages: 169
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.18w x 0.45d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 53782 / All the Way Home

Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 05/26/2003 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 05/26/2003