BOOK: Last left standing - Russell

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

Russell, Barbara T._Last left standing_1996
        The book opens with a family not getting along and the reader
soon finds out it is because of the very recent death of one
son.  Josh, the remaining son, spends the summer wandering alone and
finds a cabin in the woods in which lives  an elderly lady and a
young girl.  He discovers that his now dead brother used to visit
them and they don't know of the death yet.  He keeps coming back, not
telling them, hoping to maintain an unreal world in which his
brother could come back.  Josh gradually begins to deal with his
grief and tells them at the end of the book.  This is touching book
about grief (no so much about death).  The 132 pages are easy to read
but the topic is not one for 5th graders.  It would be a great
read-aloud and discussion book.
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