Returning to her small Massachusetts town after four years away, sixteen-year-old Kate resumes her close relationship with her childhood friend and together they try to stop the dangerously escalating hostilities between their town and the less affluent community across the river.
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Grade 10 Up Kate, 16, moves back with her family to the small New England town in which she spent her childhood, where she discovers, much to her dismay, that the high school is divided by hostile feelings between students from communities on each side of the river. Kate decides to try to make peace when she discovers she has inadvertently befriended a girl from the other side of the river. Kate's peacemaking campaign is complicated when a nuclear-waste recycling plant is scheduled to be built in one of the towns, alienating the adults of the two towns. Both the problem at the high school and the issue of the waste plant build to a climax when a tragedy strikes in the midst of Kate's peacemaking campaign. This book's strength lies in its characterization of insiders and outsiders and of haves and have nots. Kate's perception of the problems of her community and her ability to empathize with both sides as she tries to find solutions are believable. Her attraction to two very different young men, both of whom have had their integrity tried by day-to-day life, is believable. In addition, Garden has used the metaphors of peace and war effectively to help delineate the difficulties of seeing issues as black or white. Several violent incidents and an attempted rape play roles in the novel but are not graphically described. These are essential to creating the mood of the novel and are presented with discretion. Garden provides rich background and texture in her story of conflict among high school students. Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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