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Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Mathew Tekulsky's The Chestnut Tree is a coming-of-age novel about conscience and courage.
A twelve-year-old boy comes of age in the suburbs of 1960s New York, where first love, family, and quiet divisions in his community shape his understanding of who he is.
In The Chestnut Tree, twelve-year-old Adam Jacobs comes of age in the suburban town of Beachmont, New York, during the turbulent years of 1966-67. As he navigates his first crush on Sally Fletcher-a Catholic girl from a very different world-Adam is drawn into a complicated web of friendships, loyalties, and unspoken tensions within the community.
When a sudden event brings Adam into Sally's family orbit, unexpected bonds begin to form, even as divisions linger just beneath the surface. At home and at school, Adam struggles to understand where he fits, guided in part by Gladys McKinley, a reclusive writer whose past holds its own quiet secrets.
Set against the backdrop of a changing country, Adam's experiences unfold in small but meaningful moments-at school, in living rooms, on neighborhood streets-where questions of identity, belonging, and courage take on personal stakes.
At once intimate and quietly expansive, The Chestnut Tree captures a boy on the threshold of adulthood, discovering that the world is more complicated-and more connected-than he ever imagined.
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