false 2609030 1 Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity. With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time--making it again even realer than our own day. This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley's writing "radiates with a largeness of heart" (Esquire). 2633677 10 3 2008 The Blue Star: A Novel total:254|5:49|4:126|3:70|2:6|1:3| 254 974 465 106 5 1 false false Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 07 15:23:25 -0800 2008 Thu May 15 18:22:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 15:58:03 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 16:07:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:55:24 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:55:24 -0800 2009 When Jim the Boy was published in 2000, a few reviewers dismissed it as retrograde nostalgia. More, however, praised it for its realistic, understated depiction of an earlier way of life. The Blue Star, which neither idealizes nor condemns this past world, is a worthy sequel—a sort of children's b...

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Jim Glass is learning what it is like to grow up. He has found a girl that he loves with just one problem, she has a fiancé overseas. Jim must now learn what it is like to not have what he wants most, to be just friends ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 19:44:26 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 20:39:46 -0700 2009 Once more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 14:40:22 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 14:40:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:13:50 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:13:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:49:24 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 10:28:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 17:23:14 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 17:29:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:43:23 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:43:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 11 17:56:57 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 17:57:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 20:40:47 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 20:49:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 06:21:35 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 06:39:27 -0700 2008 Jim the Boy and now this book, The Blue Star which brings the story of Jim Glass up to his graduation from high school at the beginning of WWII. My connection comes, I think, from Jim Glass being a contemporary of my parents, who grew up in rural Amer...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 08 04:20:44 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 07 03:03:52 -0700 2008 once Stunningly simple. Tony Earley's style is unadorned but TO THE POINT. The point being your heart.
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