The Gathering Room

by Colby Rodowsky

Book Overview

After Aunt Ernestus comes to visit, a family living in seclusion as caretakers for a cemetery find the time has come to rejoin the mainstream of society. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374425205
• ISBN13: 9780374425203
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Sunburst
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Very intriguing

I really enjoyed this book. It isn't your typical 'young boy with obstacles must struggle to overcome' because you are never completely sure what's real and what isn't. Are his friends real, or figments of his imagination? I was also left with the sense, at the end of the book, that the apparent conclusion might not actually have been. If you like the teenage 'misfit with the undesirable family faces the world' genre, and the fantasy genre, this book will be a pleasant if sometimes surreal addition to your library.