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<p><P>BONUS FEATURE&#58; Exclusive interview with the author!<br><br>When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the <i>Book of Birds,</i> a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, and finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>Prosek (<I>A Good Day's Fishing</I>) movingly chronicles young Jeremy's emotional upheaval after his mother abandons the family, in this sophisticated novel. Often teased as a mama's boy, Jeremy feels forlorn without his mother, who left to live with another man. As the boy's father slips into a deep depression, and his 16-year-old sister is increasingly absent, Jeremy seeks refuge with his beloved Uncle John (their celebration of the boy's 10th birthday draws upon the author's interest in fishing) and at the home of his best friend, Stephen. Throughout his ordeal, Jeremy's drawings give him a source of strength, and pen-and-inks attribute

Author

Prosek, James, 1975-

Publisher

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416929345

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile

Rating

3.59 / 5 (163 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14