num_pages: 256
description: Jeff Greene was only seven when Melody, his mother, left him with his reserved, undemonstrative father, the Professor. So when she reenters his life years later with an invitation to spend the summer with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and he eagerly looks forward to returning for another visit the following year.But Jeff's second summer in Charleston ends with a devastating betrayal, and he returns to his father wounded almost beyond bearing. But out of Jeff's pain grows a deepening awareness of the unexpected and complicated ways of love and loss and of family and friendship -- and the strength to understand his father, his mother, and especially himself.
language: English
title: A Solitary Blue
titlecomplete: A Solitary Blue (Tillerman Cycle, #3)
genres: Classics, Childrens, Teen, Contemporary, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 6128
series: Tillerman Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers