Holland Isabelle - The Man Without A Face - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Charles didn't know much about life until he met The Man Without a Face" I'd never had a friend and he was my friend; I'd never really except for a shadowy memory had a father and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust and I communicated with him all the time whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him . . Fourteen - year - old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin Mc Leod nicknamed "" The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists Mc Leod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book that summer Charles learns from Mc Leod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love. Not much affection had come Charles's way until the summer he was fourteen when he met Mc Leod a man whose face was deeply scarred and learned that love has many facets. BL. A highly moral book powerfully and sensitively written; a book that never loses sight of the human." H. 1972 Best Books for Young Adults (AL a) Best of the Best Books (Y a) 1970 - 1983 (AL a) Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)
Title: The Man Without A Face
Author(s): Holland Isabelle
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780064470285
Pages: 157 Pages
Publication Date: 6/24/1993
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction