A Face in Every Window

by Han Nolan

Book Overview

After the death of his grandmother, who held the family together, teenage JP is left with a mentally challenged father and a mother who seems ineffectual and constantly sick, and he feels everything... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152019154
• ISBN13: 9780152019150
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Knitting Backwards

The story is about a young boy called JP whose life falls apart after his grandmther's death, but chaos really starts to heat up when they win an old farmhouse. Soon the house is ffilled with people he can not stant they are against all the morals he believees a person shold have. So at first JP defies his mother and ehr group of friends, then he tries to fit in but either way he cannot. Everything JP holds dear and dependalble unraveld withen the firdays at his new home so he is left with nothing but the bare threads of his once normal life. While this happened his mother and her group of lost friends are starting to weave the threads belonging in ther lives and to find themselves. The books strength is that the book grabs the floor benth you and there is no cushio to soften the fall on the hard really on the issues of love.

Great book about real-life struggles

This book is really well written. It's mainly about a teenager named James-Patrick and the problems he faces in his everyday life after his grandmother, who held the family together, died. His father is mentally retarded. They move into a large house after his grandmother dies, and his mother invites "weird" people (according to JP) to come live with the family. JP can't stand the chaos in the house with all the people there. Especially since he's a really good student, and his goal is to be the Valdictorian of his high school class. Over time his relationships with these people improve. This book was really good. It touched on things that many teenagers face in everyday life. This kind of stuff happens to everyone, and not just when a relative or close friend dies. Personally, I've felt like this a lot in life, just because I want order, like JP. This book shows that just because people are different, we can't alienate them. They're people too, and they deserve respect. I'll definitely end up reading this book again.

A face in every window

When I was going to get a book to read at school I was in a hurry so I picked out any book I could find so I just took out this book. I thought it would be boring at first but when I got into the second chapter I was very interested. This book is about a teenage boy named James Patrick. When his grandmother Mary died his family fell apart. Especially his father who was mentally disabled but worst of all he didn't know what to do about this situation. His mother then goes out with Dr.Mike who James Patrick though his mother was having an affair with. If you want to know more you should really read this book.

this book was AWESOME!

This book was really good!...Han Nolan presents an excellent way to describe the boy's crazy, chaotic life.

Even if you don't like her, you'll love this!

I picked up Dancing on the Edge awhile back and found the sort of sci-fi tie in weird. I heard this book was good, so I picked it up, having a school book report done soon. I finished it in two days, because I could never put it down. You wrapped up in the story of J.P. and his odd family. You can't help knowing how he feels at some times. When J.P.'s grandmother dies, his family falls apart. His mother starts seeing a doctor a lot and his mentally retarded father has found a new fetish of staying on the roof with an illuminnated Nativity set.His mother wins a contest where the prize is a farmhouse in New Hope. They fill their house with people, a girl with an abusive father, an abonded kid named Larry and all his poetry friends. This story really hits home. I promise you'll love it. Even if the cover looks bizarre, you'll pick up what all the things represent while reading it. Trust me, this story is amazingly well written and you won't regret it!