McKinley shifted his position on the soft leather seat as if parrying his father’s low blow. “Not that you’re ever comfortable in the kitchen,” Dad murmured, his voice barely discernible. I can’t be comfortable…around my own kitchen table, no less.” Mama’s soft voice bounced off the glass. “Because Julia persists in tellin’ me how I should think and feel. “I don’t know why y’all persist in calling it ‘prison’ every time Aunt Juju and Uncle Lawrence come to town.” His eyes connected with McKinley’s as he adjusted his rearview mirror, but in a blink, his attention returned to the road that led from the airport lot. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.“All? It’s just my aunt and uncle coming, not the entire Baldwin calvary.” Dad snapped his buckle into place. 10-14) - Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. A period piece, at its best in evoking those strangely peaceful days. Pearson writes with restraint-the adults never do find out about the party the kids throw when they spend a night away unmarried Aunt Mary decides not to wed the nice man she's been meeting secretly all summer-yet the undramatic outcomes are realistic meanwhile, Norah continues to grow and adapt, and others are lightly but credibly sketched. Hahn's Stepping on the Cracks, 1991, which probes much deeper into this issue).

Norah develops a fervent crush on Andrew, a kind boy who (after he notices) preserves his friendly demeanor with admirable tact he even confides his horror of killing to Norah alone, so that his later decision to join up comes as a shock to her (cf. Of the nine cousins in the youngest generation, the one of greatest interest to Norah is Andrew, 19, a would-be actor whose family is pushing him into engineering school or the army (as an officer, of course class is taken for granted). The family's lifestyle (plus Pearson's depiction of it) is leisurely-boating, games, etc. The second in a trilogy (The Sky Is Falling, 1990)-about two English children sent to live in Canada during WW II-takes Norah (now 13) and little brother Gavin for a summer at the large lakeside establishment of the Drummond family, whose several generations come there also to join Norah's hostess, wealthy old Mrs.

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