[LM_NET] BOOK: Gemini summer by Lawrence

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

Lawrence. Iain. Gemini summer. Delacorte, 2006 [0-385-90111-9 //
978-0385-90111-6]
It was the summer of 1965 when Danny and Beau’s father began digging
in the front yard.  Beau was crazy about space travel and rockets. One
day there is a terrible accident when Beau falls in the ditch and
dies.  Was it an accident?  The death is difficult for the whole
family but Danny takes his brother’s death especially hard and only
starts to recover when he adopts a stray dog in which he starts to see
his brother.  Danny takes the dog and runs off to see a Gemini launch
in Florida.  This 258 page book is a touching story about brotherly
love and recovering from a tragedy.  I enjoyed the story except that I
felt the writer wanted the reader to begin to believe Beau was really
in the dog.  This changed the very nature of the book.  Maybe Danny is
just imaging things, but there are an awful lot coincidences.


-- 
Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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