The Crazy Man
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: August 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780888996954
Subjects: People with mental disabilities; Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings; People & Places - Canada; Family - Parents; Juvenile Fiction; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General; Social Issues - Death & Dying; Children: Grades 4-6; Social Issues - Abandonment; People with disabilities; Social Issues - Special Needs; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / General; Absentee fathers; Fiction
First sentence: HALF THE TOWN'S DRIVING PAST OUR FARM today, churning up dust on the road just to stare at a man driving a tractor.
Description: Twelve-year-old Emaline Bitterman loves her home on the prairies. She loves helping her father in the fields and her dog, Prince. But farming in southern Saskatchewan in the mid 1960s is not easy. And then one day Emaline tries to stop Prince from chasing a hare into the path of the tractor her father is driving, and her leg is caught in the discer, leaving her with a permanent disability. In his grief and guilt her father shoots Prince and then leaves Emaline and her distraught mother on their own.