Tree by leaf

By Cynthia Voigt

Subjects: New england, fiction, Mothers, fiction, Young adult fiction, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Maine, fiction, Emotions, fiction, Fathers, fiction, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.