Aim
  • Published: 16 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781684372768
  • Imprint: Astra Publishing House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

Aim

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16 Apr 2019
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World War II looms over the United States while fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe struggles with anger and identity after his father's death in this coming-of-age title in the award-winning middle-grade Bakers Mountain Stories series -- now in paperback!

World War II looms over the U.S. while fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe struggles with anger and identity after his father's death.

As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. He struggles with school and with anger—at his late father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himself—as he desperately tries to find his own aim in life.
 
But he finds relief escaping to the quiet of the nearby woods and tinkering with cars, something he learned from his pop. And a fatherly neighbor provides much-needed guidance. This heartfelt and inspiring novel about a boy learning to accept the past and create his own future also includes an author's note and bibliography.
  • Published: 16 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781684372768
  • Imprint: Astra Publishing House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Blue:

"The intriguing history of the illness and the powerful first-person voice will propel readers through to the novel's deeply satisfying conclusion." --Booklist

"Chock full of life, history and character development. . . . The subject of polio is a rare one in children's fiction, and these characters and their story are worth getting to know." --Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Comfort:

"Contains vivid descriptions of postwar rural America, polio treatment, small-town life, the ravages of war and the importance of family." --Kirkus Reviews

"The best part of Comfort is Hostetter's loving depiction of life in the rural South in the 1940s." --Booklist

"Exceptional historical fiction." --School Library Journal