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A separate peace / John Knowles.

Knowles, John, 1926-2001 (author.2001,, author.). Levithan, David, (author (Afterword)).

Summary:

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0743253973
  • ISBN: 9780613705301
  • ISBN: 9780743253970
  • Physical Description: 208 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2003].

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1959.
Paperback edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Target Audience Note:
1030L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.9 10 545.
Subject: Boys > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Preparatory school students > Fiction.
Boys.
Friendships.
New Hampshire > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 70 of 73 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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