The Whistling Season
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Publisher:
Orlando : - Harcourt
Pages:
345
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0151012377
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Ivan Doig
Physical description:
345 p. ; 24 cm.
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Add a CommentWhile many sayings come to mind when you think of this title, one sticks in my mind most clearly: whistling girls and cackling hens both come to bad ends. When Paul's mother dies his family start to come apart at the seams. What they need, Paul's dad decides, is a housekeeper. So he answers a newspaper ad and Rose, a great whistler, comes to Montana to straighten things up. The only thing is she can't cook and she has brought her brother with her! What starts out as a great misfortune becomes a great friendship. Paul and his brothers find a great friend and teacher in the well spoken and well read Morrie. But it is Paul who is suspicious of Morrie's past and as he sniffs it out he comes closer to the truth that might break up his family in the end. Meanwhile, a much older Paul must make a decision about the country schools that he loves so much. Well drawn schoolyard exploits as well as the characters that inhabit this book make this a book that you will want to take your time reading.