The blue star : a novel / Tony Earley.
Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316199070
- ISBN: 0316199079
- Physical Description: 286 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
Content descriptions
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5 9 121982.
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- Subject:
- Teenage boys > Fiction.
Nineteen forties > Fiction. - Genre:
- Coming-of-age fiction
Romance fiction.
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- 30 of 30 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 30 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Earley (Text) | 31010000714362 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC EAR (Text) | 31111002443305 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Belhaven Public Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101257374 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Canton Library | NC F (Text) | 33115005452005 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | F EARLEY (Text) | 40599000723653 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Elkin Public Library | F EARLEY (Text) | 40599000723679 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | FIC Earley, Tony (Text) | 0112516754440 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Gunn Memorial Public Library | F EAR (Text) | 34621200153982 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hampton B. Allen Library | FIC EARLEY (Text) | 18198000016222 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Haynes Branch Library | F Ear (Text)
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Summary:
Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.
