The Blue Star
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Little, Brown and Co.
Published: March 10, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780316199070
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General; Literary; Nineteen forties; Teenage boys
Description: Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old from Tony Earley's Jim the Boy, returns. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.