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Title details for Park's Quest by Katherine Paterson - Available

Park's Quest

by Katherine Paterson
Jeff Woodman
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Eleven-year-old Parkington Waddell Broughton knows he is the fifth person to bear this family name, but he doesn't know much more about his relatives. His father died in the Vietnam War when Park was an infant, and his mother refuses to talk about his father's life or his family. Finally, Park convinces his mother to let him visit his grandfather's farm in Virginia. The boy hopes he will find answers to his questions there. But his grandfather is incoherent, crippled by several strokes. And a young Vietnamese girl on the farm seems determined to make Park miserable. Who is she, and how does Park fit into this strange group? Katherine Paterson, Newbery Award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia, has crafted a moving tale of personal discovery. Park's quest for identity, and what he learns, will speak to all young adults. Jeff Woodman's superb narration captures each of Park's hopes and fears.

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  • Release date

    May 12, 2000

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449878856
      • File size: 124851 KB
      • Duration: 04:20:06

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 710
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Park, aka "Pork," age 11, lives in DC with his mother, who avoids any mention of his father, a Vietnam War casualty. Seeing himself as an Arthurian knight of old, Park resolves to discover more about his father, who becomes his longed-for Holy Grail. Narrator Jeff Woodman's voice nails the emotional urgency and embarrassed awkwardness of Park's pre-adolescent search. Moving flawlessly through a variety of accents (Round-Table, Vietnamese-American, and rural Virginia), Woodman steps effortlessly and convincingly into each character's shoes, revealing his or her quirks and foibles in this one-boy crusade for truth. E.V. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 1989
      Park's mother won't answer his questions about his father, who was killed in Vietnam, but eventually agrees to let Park visit his father's family in Virginia. Nothing he finds there is what he expected but, in Paterson's insightful novel, everyone concerned finds reconciliation. Ages 10-up.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:710
  • Text Difficulty:3

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