Eleven year old Penny lives with her mother and her maternal grandparents following the death of her father. She also spends a lot of time with her father's extended Italian family including several uncles who dote on her, a cousin Frankie who is always in trouble and a grandmother, Nonny who always dresses in black. It's the summer of 1953; polio keeps her from the swimming pool; her mother is dating the milkman; and the two families barely speak to each other. Filled with humor, drama and some suspense about her father and how he died, this is great storytelling with characters it's a pleasure to spend time with.
Grades 5-8
Friday, March 16, 2007
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This is a captivating and realistic story of a loving, protective Italian family life after the World War II. It also gives us another slice of history and what some of our ethnic groups endured in the land of the free.
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