By:
Leif Enger
Grade Level:
This is the story of Reuben “Rube” Land, a boy born with severe asthma to the devoutly religious miracle worker Jeremiah Land of Roofing, Minnesota. The novel is set in circa 1962, when Reuben is eleven, his spunky, Western novel obsessed sister Swede is nine, and their all-but-idolized older brother Davy is sixteen. The crux of the novel is Davy’s crime against two boys, Israel Finch and Tommy Basca, who molest and attempt to rape Davy’s girlfriend Dolly in the girls’ locker room.
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