Aim
by Joyce Moyer Hostetter (Author)
Booktalk: As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. Junior struggles with school and with anger–at his father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himself–as he desperately tries to understand himself and find his own aim in life.
Snippet: On the school bus I stared out the window so Ann Fay would know to leave me alone. What was wrong with the old man anyway? Sometimes it felt like war wasn’t across the ocean. It was right there in my own house. And inside me too. I didn’t know which way to think or feel, and I didn’t know who to be angry with. Pop for leaving or Granddaddy for staying. Or Momma for being bighearted and taking him in.
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