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Julie Johnston's subtle and beautifully polished work has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career. Her first two novels, Hero of Lesser Causes and Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me, received the Governor General's Literary Award, and her subsequent two novels, The Only Outcast and In Spite of Killer Bees, were Governor General's Literary Award finalists. In 2003, Julie Johnston was presented with the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work and its contribution to literature for young people. Her most recent young adult books, Susanna's Quill and A Very Fine Line, were also critically acclaimed. Julie Johnston lives in Peterborough, Ontario. The author lives in Peterborough, Ontario.
Filled with bumbling characters who achingly love each other, this coming-of-age tale rises above a crowded field to take readers on a moving journey of discovery. -- Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews Johnston has crafted a beautifully written, low-key, yet emotional story of a family dealing with the return of a son at the close of war. Jamie is wracked with survivor's guilt.... His letters to Rachel ... are painfully realistic, the antithesis of the glamour that teens too often assign to war.... -- Starred Review, Booklist Johnston gives equal weight to struggles major and trivial as she sensitively examines the painful process of rebuilding one's life under the most difficult of circumstances. -- Publishers Weekly .. .a believable, engaging story. The first-person, present-tense narration lends immediacy and Rachel speaks in a convincing adolescent voice.... Libraries will find this sympathetic novel a worthwhile purchase. -- VOYA
