Tell Me How the Wind Sounds (Point) - Softcover

Guccione, Leslie Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590417142 ISBN 13: 9780590417143

Publisher: Point, 1992

Synopsis

An ordinary summer at the beach becomes a life lesson in love and understanding when fifteen-year-old Amanda meets Jake, a seventeen-year-old deaf boy. Reprint.

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From School Library Journal

Grade 7-9-- On a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, two teenagers who at first have contempt and distrust for one another form a deeply-bonded friendship . Amanda , 15, is very social, and disdainful of Clark Island's unspoiled natural simplicity. Jake, 16, loves the island's solitude and working on his father's lobster boat, but is wary of others and uncommunicative. He is : deaf. The two go through slowly changing degrees of rejection, acceptance, anger, and stirrings of love as they develop the skills to communicate honestly with each other. The drama of their difficulties is effectively highlighted by the device Guccione employs to distinguish verbal conversation from that which is signed. Amanda forces Jake to express his feelings; indeed, to understand them himself. Jake gently leads Amanda to an appreciation of the island's rhythmic shore and ocean life, and to a realization of how shallow her mainland friends and activities have been. A stormy crisis at sea teaches Jake and Amanda that they must rely on each other, putting aside their own fears and stubbornness. Although the narrative flows erratically at times and the climax is slow in coming, interaction between the two young people is powerful and believably constructed. There is no glib promise of happily-ever-after but instead, a positive and realistic anticipation of whatever the future holds for them. --Katharine Bruner, Brown Middle School, Harrison, TN
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Edition details

• Publisher: Point
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590417142
• ISBN 13: 9780590417143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196