Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple

Mourlevat, Jean-Claude.
THE PULL OF THE OCEAN
New York : Delacorte, 2006
IL YA
ISBN 0385733488
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 "My name is Yann Doutreleau.  I am ten years old. On a very rainy November night, I convinced my brothers to flee our parents' farm.  We went west."  Yann and his six brothers, three sets of twins, set out in search of the ocean.  Yann was the youngest brother but he was definitely the leader.  What a site it must have been.  Three sets of identical twins being led through the countryside by a ten year old the size of a two year old.
SUBJECTS:      Size -- Fiction.
                        Twins -- Fiction.
                        Brothers -- Fiction.
                        Mutism, Elective -- Fiction.
                        France -- Fiction.

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