Being Youngest

by Jim Heynen

Book Overview

Being Youngest is an exquisite new novel about Henry and Gretchen, two farm kids growing up in rural Iowa. Filled with details of farm life, obnoxious older siblings, perplexing parents, a tornado, and a strange and at times frightening elderly couple, this is a beautifully written, thought-provoking - and funny - meditation on what it means to be the youngest child.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805054863
• ISBN13: 9780805054866
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

It's One Good Book

Being Youngest is a great book (...). I find it to be entertaining and fulfilling. Being Youngest is all about none other than being youngest. If you don't know what it's like then you might not be able to relate to it. Although everyone in there life feels abused, left out, or ignored. Henry and Gretchen are just two kids feeling bad for themselves, which is uncommon among teenagers or children. Their families have no where else to put the blame so they just put it on Henry and Gretchen.Through all the meetings with the old couple and their summer-afternoon bike rides I find this book to be enteraining, funny, and a little bit out of the ordinary.