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An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world,
Dial Press Trade Paperback
November 2007
On Sale: October 30, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0385340893
EAN: 9780385340892
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Fiction | Childrens
An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod
and the tallest boy in the world, The Giant's House is the
magical first novel from the author of the 1994 ALA Notable
collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry. The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod
twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and
life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson
Sweatt--the "over tall" eleven-year-old boy who's the talk
of the town--walks into her library and changes her life
forever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the
circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for
friendship, but nevertheless they soon find their lives
entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. In
James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever really
understood her, and as he grows--six foot five at age
twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does her heart and
their most singular romance. The Giant's House is an
unforgettably tender and quirky novel about learning to
welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of
choosing to love in a world that gives no promises, and no
guarantees.
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