Rodowsky, Colby. Spindrift.HarperTrophy. 136p. c2000. 0-06-4409910. $5.95. J To quote KLIATT's March 2000 review of the hardcover edition: It's the summer after seventh grade, and Cassie is looking forward to spending it the same way she always has in the little seaside resort seaside resort n → playa seaside resort sea n → station f balnéaire seaside resort sea n → Badeort town of Bethany Beach, Delaware Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 943.[1] . She plans to help out at her grandmother's lovely old bed-and-breakfast, the Spindrift spin·drift n. Windblown sea spray. Also called spoondrift. [Variant of Scots spenedrift : spene (variant of obsolete spoon, to run before the wind) + drift. , where she lives with her mother and her grandmother, and to hang out with her friends on the beach. But when Cassie spots her brother-in-law pawing pawing a form of behavior characterized by persistent use of one forelimb to dig in the ground, or to thump it, or to scratch at a fixed object such as a door; stimulated by subacute pain, boredom. a woman who clearly isn't his wife, Cassie's very pregnant sister Cindy, she begins to feel her security threatened. Cassie has always adored a·dore v. a·dored, a·dor·ing, a·dores v.tr. 1. To worship as God or a god. 2. To regard with deep, often rapturous love. See Synonyms at revere1. 3. Mickey, but now she suspects that he is not to be trusted. Change is in the air, much as Cassie resents it, and while she wishes that everything would remain the same, other people's plans alter her life. Cindy has the baby and leaves Mickey to move back into the Spindrift, while Cassie's grandmother plans to get married and to sell the place. Like it or not, Cassie must learn to go along with the changes in her family. This is an affecting story about a 13-year-old's eye-opening summer as she begins to leave childhood behind and to understand the world of adults a little better. Cassie's disillusionment Disillusionment Adams, Nick loses innocence through WWI experience. [Am. Lit.: “The Killers”] Angry Young Men disillusioned postwar writers of Britain, such as Osborne and Amis. [Br. Lit. with Mickey rings true, as does her squabbling with her older sister. Rodowsky, the author of many books for YAs and children, succeeds in painting a sympathetic portrait of a small town and a young girl's coming of age. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT |
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