Journey

Description

Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.Journey searches photographs for answers. He hunts family resemblances in Grandma's albums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs his grandfather takes as the older man attempts to provide Journey with a past. In the process, the boy learns to look and finds that, for him, the camera is a means of finding things his naked eye has missed--things LIKE inevitability of his mother's departure and the love that still binds his family.From the Trade Paperback edition.

First Sentence

MY GRANDFATHER is belly down in the meadow with his camera, taking a close-up of a cow pie.

Description

Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.

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Other Editions

• JourneyDelacorte Press1991-01-01
• JourneyHardcoverBantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group1990-12-01
• Journey.Julia MacRae1991-01-01
• JourneyPerfection Learning Prebound1993-01-01
• JourneyDell1993-01-01
• JourneyPaperbackHaynes Publications1993-05-01