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The Outside Boy (2010)

by Jeanine Cummins(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0451229487 (ISBN13: 9780451229489)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

NAL Trade

review 1: What a lovely book--poetic, beguiling, and different. It's coming-of-age, but within the subculture of the Irish Pavee--travellers, gypsies, tinkers, whatever name they are called by outsiders--circa 1950s rural Ireland. And within the picture of this culture is the intimate story of Christy, who is at the brink of many unexpected discoveries about his family's past and his own. I plan to suggest this for 10-12 book club--a real charmer, poignant and inspirational but also a good tale.
review 2: A little obvious and romance-y at the end, but all in all better than I expected it to be. Because I'd already missed the book club, I didn't bother to look at the discussion questions, which I almost never find useful. I was a little surprised to find a book in the voi... morece of a 12yo boy written by a woman, but in the end a woman is the hero of his story. There's a great bit I want to remember about the Decalogue, at around p.100. I borrowed it from the library — because I had so little confidence in it — but I might just seek out a copy for my collection. less

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