Cleary, B. (1983). Dear
Mr. Henshaw. NY: Morrow
A child who has to deal with the ramifications of his
parents' divorce, a move to a small house, loneliness, a father who broken so
many promises, isolation from friends, a lunch bag thief, and the pressures of
class. He tries to make sense of his situation which results in both maturity
and contentment. He reaches out to an
author who helps him deal with life as a teenager from a broken family. There
is some humor and the setting keeps changing from the second grade through
fifth grades. First Leigh lives with his mother and father in a mobile home
outside of Bakersfield, then a sixth grader struggling with a move to Pacific
Grove on California's central coast where he comes head on with his parents'
divorce. Lastly they move in a very small falling apart house next to a gas
station which is furnished with items from a thrift store.
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