Out of the Storm
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In 1946, a year after Mandy's father died in World War II, Mandy, her mother, and her younger brother Ira move in with stern Aunt Bess on her northern Ohio sheep farm. Desperate to hold on to the memory of her father, Mandy dreams of returning to the house he planned to purchase. But she gets involved in school activities and tending the sheep, and when the spring floods come, must decide whether to save the sheep-committing to her new life-or cling to her dream and let the ewes and their newborn lambs drown.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:039568708X
ISBN13:9780395687086
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Clarion Books
Length:188 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
Age Range:10 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 5 to 7
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Poignant portrait of grief
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The surface of this book deals with a girl's struggle over her family's relocation to a rural area, and the loss of her dream of remaining in her home town, but its deeper currents deal with the difficulty she, her mother, and her brother have in dealing with her father's death in action in World War Two. Her brother clings to hope that the father somehow survives in hiding somewhere, her mother is overwhelmed by angry feelings of abandonment and desperation to find a way to support her children, and the main character, Mandy, clings to her father's dream of buying a neighbor's house in the original home town. Through her experiences with local school children, the strict great aunt with whom they live in the rural area, and her growing attachment to the herd of sheep she tends after school Mandy comes to terms with her own grief and begins to accept her mother's and brother's confused anguish as well. In the process she grows up a little, and begins to understand why relocation, however painful, is the only way to support the family.
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