And, maybe partly because of the setting of our campus - rural, and yet a center of learning and exposure to ideas and culture the world over - Colgate alumni also know the power a particular place can have, in life, learning, and literature.Īs Eudora Welty, fiction luminary of the American South, put it, “Place, to the writer at work, is seen in a frame. No surprise: there are a lot of great writers among our alumni. Jacobsen's lively, well-composed pencil illustrations nicely capture the book's emotions.Ī moving, well-written tale about an unusual friendship.New books of all kinds regularly roll into our office. Throughout, the author effectively employs maritime metaphors to tie everything together. and an entire standing skeleton of what might have been a fox.' That Rusty allows himself to be changed by Hazel's friendship and guidance speaks well of him in a subtle way, and it's touching to see their mutual caring and compassion. Rusty realizes he can repair his boat, 'unlike some of the other things that I couldn't do anything about.' Poetically striking details make scenes come alive, as with Hazel's house, filled with 'books, shells, pottery, dried seaweed, lacy snake skins. In his third book for children, Loizeaux sensitively evokes his narrator's pain and confusion as well as his insights. Though sorrow follows, Rusty gains a firmer sense of what's important. The day before his mother's return, Rusty finally takes Hazel for a joyous sail. Besides the money, Rusty appreciates Hazel's agreeably cluttered house, her seaside paintings, and her friendly cat, Marigold. They settle into a comforting routine, starting with a snack and math homework, then chores.
Rusty puts her off but later agrees to earn money by doing chores at her house. One day, Hazel Perkins, an older woman in a wheelchair, asks him to take her sailing. Rusty takes his mind off things by fixing up an old catboat. But worst of all, his mother is temporarily gone, being treated for depression it's unknown when she'll return. His closest pal, Walter, is at sleepaway camp for six weeks.
He failed fifth grade math and now has to go to summer school. Summer vacation isn't starting out well for Russell, called Rusty.
"A middle-grade boy finds comfort and emotional growth in his friendship with an older woman in this novel.
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