![]() ![]() One thing she can never forgive is anyone hurting or making sport of Charlie, and when she thinks a boy in her neighborhood has done just this, she can never get enough revenge on him.īut then comes the day when everyone gets up in the morning and Charlie isn’t there. ![]() Though he is sometimes a nuisance, Sara cares about him. Discontent brews within her, fueled by envy of her beautiful older sister the coarseness of her Aunt Willie, who has raised them since their mother died the disinterest of her father who works in another state and (she guiltily admits to herself) how she chafes against the constraints of caring for her 10-year-old, brain-damaged brother, Charlie. Sara has other things on her mind as well. But she thinks it’s because her nose is crooked, her feet are big, and her orange sneakers make her look like Donald Duck and she knows that looks matter, no matter what everyone says about other things being more important. Mainly, it seems (though the book never comes right out and says it) that she is suffering from puberty. It all happens in two days’ time.īut in those two days you learn a lot about what ails Sara Godfrey. It doesn’t actually tell about the whole summer. ![]() The author of After the Goat Man, The House of Wings, Trouble River, and The Cybil War won the Newbery Medal for this book in 1971. ![]()
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