Status
Available
Local notes
PB Avi
Collection
Genres
Publication
HarperCollins (1995), Edition: Reissue, 144 pages
Description
At the end of the summer, 14-year-old Owen refuses to leave the beach house which has been his family's summer home for 10 years and which is scheduled for demolition.
Awards
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1983)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1981
Physical description
144 p.; 4.19 inches
User reviews
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Owen (14) and his family have been spending three weeks every summer at the same beach cottage on a small island. When he learns that the cottage is going to be torn down after they leave to make room for a new hotel, Owen decides he is going to stay, and somehow save the cottage and prevent the
Owen desperately needs to see that Star Trek movie... "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
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hotel from going up. Initially, the reader may admire Owen's spunk and determination, but our sympathy quickly dries up when we learn that every single person who lives on the island year round desperately wants the hotel to go up. The hotel will mean more jobs, better jobs, financial security, more tourists, and a real livelihood. But Owen doesn't give a whit about any of that, even when the one person on the island who seems to like him, the pretty Terri, allows that she wants the hotel too. The protagonist is a selfish, spoiled brat when it comes down to it, and that sours my appreciation of the book. Owen desperately needs to see that Star Trek movie... "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
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Pages
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