Stepping on the Cracks
- Author Mary Downing Hahn
- Narrator Rachel Dulude
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 1 July 2013
- Run Time 5 hours and 49 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods and feelings, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: siblings.
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What to expect
Margaret and her best friend Elizabeth both have brothers fighting the war against Hitler and, like everyone else they know, they are filled with feelings of patriotism. But the girls are also involved in their own personal war at home. Gordy Smith, the worst bully in the sixth grade, teases and torments them, and Margaret is scared to death of him. But when Gordy and his pals Toad and Doug grow bolder than ever, Margaret and Elizabeth come up with a daring plan to get even. That's when the girls discover a shocking secret about Gordy that turns their lives upside down and draws them into a startling confrontation with family, friends, and their own strongly held ideas.
Critics Review
u201cThe ever-popular World War II genre gains new depth in Hahnu2019s painfully honest story about a sixth-grade girl in small-town Marylandu2026As in the best political fiction, there are no simple messages. Everything is rooted in story and character and in a view of the landscape where categories waver in the heat, blur in the snow.u201d
u201cSubtle, thought provokingu2026Hahn succeeds in raising questions as valuable as they are vexing.u201d
u201cThere is plenty of action and page-turning suspense to please those who want a quick read, but there is much to ponder and reflect on as well.u201d
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