Tree By Leaf
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Clothilde Speer's life is falling apart. Her father, the son of a wealthy and proper Boston family, enlists in World War I, only to return disfigured in body and soul. He moves to the boathouse of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0689314035
ISBN13:9780689314032
Release Date:March 1988
Publisher:Atheneum Books
Length:192 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
Age Range:9 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 4 to 7
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Tree by Leaf
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Tree by Leaf by Cynthia Voigt is about a girl named Clothilde Speer who lives on a peninsula in Maine that she owns. Her father has returned from the war (World War 1) disfigured and so ashamed because of it that he retreats to the boathouse and refuses to see his family. Her older brother Nate has gone to Boston to live with their rich grandfather. Her mother has assumed the role of a "lady" and refuses to do any work, and since their hired girl is leaving, that leaves Clothilde to do all the work. She's very upset, but then she hears a mysterious Voice out in the woods that talks to her and seems to be coming from the air. It asks her what she wants most, and she tells it. She figures that she just dreamed the whole thing. But then the things that Clothilde wished for start to come true, in horrible ways that she never meant to happen. Can Clothilde fix the damage that she has done? Will the Voice ever come back to explain itself? This book was good, but it was a bit confusing at times. I mean, a Voice coming from the trees and the air? But despite that it was pretty good.
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