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A serious young boy has to learn to take a stand for his own well-being. In 1952 eight-year-old Peti's Hungarian relatives come to live with his family in America. His older cousin Gabor is a sullen boy who argues with his parents and bullies Peti. Peti's only escape is to the local library, where he reads about everything from the solar system to pinhole cameras and secret codes. Peti wants Gabor to move out, but Uncle Jozsef can't find a job, and Peti's mother has to find work instead. The landlady is threatening to evict them, and the boys in the neighborhood are dreaming up trouble. To top it all off, Peti's mother worries constantly about her father, who is behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary. When the librarian invites Peti to go with her on a tour of the Rankin House, once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the day trip turns into much more than a chance to get away from tension at home. Peti comes back with a new understanding of friendship and family, new insights about human nature, and a new resolve to stand up for himself.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Chris Chirillo
reviewed Eclipse on July 31, 2009
Eclipse
Emma insists I read about one of every 20 books she reads. (For background knowledge, she set her summer reading goal at 200 books.) I usually try to pick them up if she's serious about it (i.e. says so more than once, for example). And given that my to-read shelf is pretty dry because I'm quarantined, I was happy to try Eclipse.
And then I spent the whole book (mostly read after she was in bed for the evening) wondering what she'd liked about it.
Set in the early 1950s in Ohio, a young Hungarian boy and his immigrant parents must house new immigrant family members. It's a pretty painful read -- the boy's older cousin and neighbor kids beat him up and steal from him, his grandfather (back in Hungary) has gone missing, his only friend is a tolerant librarian who teaches him about the Underground Railroad. (Hmm, some parallels, maybe?)
It was a touching, painful book. And Emma loved it. So did I.
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