The Piper's Son (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763647582)

The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family's hard-won healing on the other side of trauma.

Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca -- but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt, work at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father. Tom's in no shape to mend what's broken. But what if no one else is either? An unflinching look at family, forgiveness, and the fierce inner workings of love and friendship, The Piper's Son redefines what it means to go home again.

Author: Melina Marchetta
ISBN-10: 0763647586
ISBN-13: 9780763647582
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 143187 / Piper's Son


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2011 pg. 72
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2011
School Library Journal 03/01/2011 pg. 166
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2011 pg. 317
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2011 - Recommended - Readable
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2011
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2011 - Recommended, Satisfactory
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2011 pg. 64