The Green of Me Author:Patricia Lee Gauch "And he took her hand, something like she and her friends used to do when they were five years old and wanted to be close in a crowd, and then he pulled her close to him and put his face, wet and warm, against her face, wet and warm and he kissed her." — — Standing in the rain, Jennifer Lynn Cooper knew Chris Cochran, "crazy, unpredictab... more »le" Chris Cochran. She knew that moment. Felt it.
It was only one moment of many that added up to the train ride to Charlottesville and the date seventeen-year-old Jennifer had to keep. Moments like the one when she was seven and she and her blue-eyed cousin Rosemary vied for their grandmother's garnet ring, or the moment at thirteen when Jennifer saved the broke-winged gull from the jeering faces at the beach, or at sixteen when she met Chris alone in a parking lot. There were so many moments, but they all added up to the train ride. And Jennifer knew it.
This is the story of a young girl growing up and how she touches and is touched by the people in her world -- her warm, independent grandmother, her stormy father, her storytelling grandfather, "perfect" Alice Richards, and her first love, Chris Cochran. It is Jennifer's story alone, yet it is every young girl's story of the years of greening.« less
ISBN-13: 9780399206474 ISBN-10: 0399206477 Pages:156 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: