Tree by Leaf

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Cynthia Voigt: Tree by Leaf (Hardcover, 1999, Tandem Library)

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English language

Published Oct. 9, 1999 by Tandem Library.

ISBN:
978-0-8335-3386-9
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OCLC Number:
228214902

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4 stars (1 review)

A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.

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4 stars


What ages would I recommend it too? – Twelve and up.

Length? – A two evening read.

Characters? – Memorable, several characters.

Setting? – Peninsula in Maine in early 1900's..

Written approximately? – 1988.

Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – No

Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? No.

Short storyline: Clothilde has to face the reality that the disfigured man in the boathouse is the man she remembers as Father, who went off to war years ago. In doing so, she is able to help him heal, and return to his family.

Notes for the reader: This main character has auditory visions of God.

Subjects

  • General
  • Family problems
  • Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)