Setting free the kites / Alex George.
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TextPublisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback editionDescription: 326 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0399576487; 9780399576485Subject(s): Male friendship -- Fiction | Teenage boys -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction | Maine -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans. | Psychological fiction. DDC classification: 823/.92 LOC classification: PR6107.E53 | S48 2018Summary: "For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan s budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It s there that Nathan s boundless capacity for optimism threatens to overwhelm them both, and where they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge."--Amazon.com.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | YA GEOR (Browse shelf) | Checked out | 12/03/2025 | 49193 |
"For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan s budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It s there that Nathan s boundless capacity for optimism threatens to overwhelm them both, and where they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge."--Amazon.com.
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