Okay for now
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544022805 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0544022807 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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360 p. ; 20 cm. - Publisher: New York : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, c2011.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug's oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds his missions have given him? But Doug has his own mission, too, and it begins when he first sees the plates of John James Audubon's Birds of American at the local library. His mission will open a world as strange to him as the lunar landscape"--Publisher. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, Teen, 2014. |
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Genre: | Young adult fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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- 24 of 24 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Bethel Public Library | TEEN F SCHMIDT (Text) | 34030128968812 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | TEEN F SCHMIDT (Text) | 34030128968820 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | YA SCHMIDT (Text) | 34000080735194 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC SCH (Text) | 33400125673932 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dr. Helen Baldwin Middle School | FIC SCH (Text) | 30786000351963 | Language Arts 7/8 | Available | - |
Dr. Helen Baldwin Middle School | FIC SCH (Text) | 30786000358612 | Reading Support | Available | - |
Dr. Helen Baldwin Middle School | FIC SCH (Text) | 30786000358620 | Reading Support | Available | - |
Dr. Helen Baldwin Middle School | FIC SCH (Text) | 30786000747608 | Adventure | Available | - |
Franklin Elementary School | FIC SCH (Text) | 30206000083474 | Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | YA FICTION SCHMIDT (Text) | 32518127716549 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Okay for Now : A National Book Award Winner
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Okay for Now : A National Book Award Winner
Beloved author Gary D. Schmidt expertly blends comedy and tragedy in the story of Doug Swieteck, an unhappy "teenage thug" first introduced in The Wednesday Wars, who finds consolation and a sense of possibility in friendship and art. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, this absorbing novel centers on Doug, 14, who has an abusive father, a bully for a brother, a bad reputation, and shameful secrets to keep. Teachers and police and his relatives think he's worthless, and he believes them, holding others at arm's length. Newly arrived in town, he starts out on the same path--antagonizing other kids, mouthing off to teachers, contemptuous of everything intimidating or unfamiliar. Who would have thought that the public library would turn out to be a refuge and an inspiration, that a snooty librarian might be a friend, or that snarky redheaded Lil would like him--really like him? With more than his share of pain, including the return of his oldest brother from the Vietnam War, shattered and angry, will Doug find anything better than "okay for now"?