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by Martha Brooks

ISBN: 0888993773
Author: Martha Brooks
Language: English
Publisher: House of Anansi / Groundwood (1999)
Category: Contemporary
Subcategory: Literature
Rating: 4.8
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Martha Brooks Contemporary English

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Being with Henry book. Martha Brooks is an award-winning novelist, playwright and jazz singer whose books have been published in Spain, Italy, Japan, Denmark, England, Germany and Australia, as well as in Canada and the United States.

Martha Ruth Brooks (born July 15, 1944) is a Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Winnipeg-based Brooks was born and raised on the grounds of the Manitoba Sanatorium in Ninette, Manitoba, where her father was a thoracic surgeon and her mother a nurse.

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Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning. Based on her short story "The Kindness of Strangers", Brooks portrays the development of an unlikely friendship between runaway teenagaer Laker Wyatt and the lonely old man who takes him in. 173 pages ; 21 cm. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG .

Laker's story is at once pedestrian and miraculous. More Young Adult . More by martha brooks. Brooks deals with universal adolescent themes of home, self, and romance with a fresh hand, creating a memorable story that begs repeating. True confessions of a heartless girl. Traveling on into the light.

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Martha Brooks is an award-winning novelist, jazz singer and playwright. Her award-winning books include Bone Dance(winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award), Being with Henry(winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award), True Confessions of a Heartless Girl(winner of the Governor General's Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award) and Mistik Lake(Publishers.

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Martha Cooper is a Manhattan-based documentary photographer. Henry Chalfant is a sculptor, filmmaker, and photographer in New York. Her images of graffiti and hip hop culture are world-renowned and widely published. She is the Director of Photography at City Lore. His photos have appeared in many books and he has produced several documentary films on street art and urban culture.

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Martha Brooks has done it again. She writes real books about characters who are real, substantial and who have hearts that cry and sometimes laugh. Authors who give us life as it is, messy, but don't wallow in bitterness, despair or the shock value of absent values, these are the authors who give us books that are worthwhile.
This is a stunning story about loss and love, about a lost and lonely teenager, and about a lonely, but not so lost, old man who find one another. The twist at the end is sweet, and yet keeps from being sappy.
Highly recommended for teen readers and their parents. Like all great books this is a grand book for any age.

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Laker always managed to take care of his mother, whether it was fixing her favorite foods or calling her in sick to work. He's been around when the men in her life have left her, and they've spent stretches of time alone. But then his mother started dating Rick. They ended up getting married, although Laker didn't like him at all and couldn't see why his mother stayed with him, especially when Rick started to lose his temper with her.

One day, shortly after finding out his mother was pregnant, Laker had enough of his stepfather's bullying and attacked him. He expected his mother would be on his side, but he was wrong. Instead of standing up for him, his mother and Rick threw him out of the house. Laker took the first bus he could and ended up in another town where, after his money ran out, he was reduced to begging on the streets.

While he is begging for money one day, an old man named Henry, driving with his unpleasant daughter, offers him some yard work for money. Henry's daughter thinks it is the worst idea she's ever heard, and grows to hate the idea even more as Laker stays longer and longer with him. Eventually Laker gets a job and starts paying Henry money to live with him. But there is tension in Henry's family and Laker's presence just seems to be making it worse.

I liked seeing the complexities of Henry's family, especially the way he and his daughter related to each other. I also liked the trust that built up between Laker and Henry. I didn't like Laker's relationship with Sarah and the way he treated her.

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Raised by a single mother, Laker has to be the man of the house. When Rick comes on the scene, everything changes. Rick cusses and abuses Laker and his mom. When Laker fights with Rick, his mom kicks him out of the house. Laker, penniless, cold and sleeping on the street, meets Henry, 83, widower. Henry takes Laker in which brings its own challenges and surprises. They care for each other and find out how small the world really is.

For mature readers because of offensive language...and there is quite a bit.