Hometown CL

by Marsha Qualey

Book Overview

Just before the 1991 Gulf War begins, sixteen-year-old Border Baker moves to a small town with his father, a Vietnam War draft resister. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395726662
• ISBN13: 9780395726662
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Realistic, sensitive novel that will appeal to teens

Border Baker is a lot like teenagers I've known. Sometimes he wishes his family would just disappear; his friends are the ones who really matter to him. When his father moves him across the country to a tiny Minnesota town, Border has to come to terms with his family and what he really wants. That sounds serious, and some of this book, set during the Gulf War, is serious. It's also very real and often funny.