The blue star
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tony Earley
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780316199070
Subjects: Nineteen forties; Teenage boys; Fiction
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.