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Imagine
that you’ve just finished 4th grade and you’re looking forward
to summer when you learn that your parents are sending you away for the
entire summer.For Henry in Izzy’s Place by
Marc Kornblatt, this is exactly what is happening.Henry’s
parents are making him pack up and leave their home in New
Jersey
to spend the summer with his grandmother in Indiana.
He would have preferred almost anything other than spending the summer
with his grandmother.But Henry’s parents think it
is best for Henry to be away from them for awhile since they seem only
to argue most of the time.The arguing and fighting
between his parents have caused Henry problems---he couldn’t cope with
it so they sent him to see a psychologist.Now the
psychologist agrees that Henry should give his parents some time to work
things out.And besides, he knows that Grandma Martha
needs company now that Grandpa Jay has died.
And
that’s part of the problem.When Henry was younger,
he always enjoyed staying with his grandparents, but that was when Grandpa
Jay was still alive.Grandpa was always fun and liked
adventure. Now, things are not the same at home or at his grandparents’
house.But Henry finally lets the matter drop.His
going to Grandma Martha’s is one of the few things his parents have agreed
about in months.
Of
course, when he gets to Grandma’s he is totally irritated that she treats
him like a baby and that there are no kids his own age.His
parents promised that he could go to the YMCA
day camp while he stayed with Grandma, but the camp already has full enrollment.So
what’s he suppose to do all day…. and all summer?His
life seems on a downward spiral with the uncertainty of his parents’ relationship
and a summer with randma.But, little does he know, this
summer may just be the best one ever.Things begin
to change when he meets Grandma’s older next-door neighbor who just happens
to have sorrows and needs greater than Henry’s.Read
Izzy’s
Place by Marc Kornblatt to find out what happens in this very special
summer. Oklahoma Sequoyah
Children’s Book Award nominee, 2005-2006 |
