Journey - Softcover

MacLachlan, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0606053875 ISBN 13: 9780606053877

Publisher: Demco Media, 1993

Synopsis

When Journey's mother abandons him when he is eleven, he goes to live with his grandparents, where he reconstructs family history with old pictures that help him understand why his mother left

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.

About the Author:

Patricia Maclachlan, the author of numerous picture books and novels for children, is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel Sarah, Plain and Tall. Her other works include Journey, Baby, Waiting for the Magic, and Kindred Souls. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she attended the University of Connecticut and now lives in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: Demco Media
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0606053875
• ISBN 13: 9780606053877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 83