Journey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440408093)

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.

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN-10: 0440408091
ISBN-13: 9780440408093
Publisher: Yearling Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1993
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 7.62h x 5.32w x 0.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 6672 / Journey


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 01/01/1998