The cloud chamber

By Joyce Maynard

Subjects: Suicide, fiction, Problem families, Family problems, Montana, fiction, Middle schools, Mental Depression, Depression, mental, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fathers, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Suicide, Fathers, History, Schools

Description: In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.