By the Highway Home Author:Mary Stolz All at once, everything changes for Catty Reed. With the news of her brother's death in Vietnam, everyone at home becomes silent and moody. It seems to Catty that she is the only one who wants to remember Beau and his place in their lives. — But as family tension increases, Catty suspects that her parents are hiding some other mis... more »fortune. Finally, the children learn that their father has lost his job and cannot find work. The Reeds are forced to sell their house and live with relatives in Vermont.
Uncle Henry's inn for old people becomes their new home and the family pitches in, caring for the land and the boarders. For Catty, the move is a providential act, bringing her in contact with unspoiled nature and, in a special way, closer to Beau. But her older sister, Ginny, considers the move a social comedown, which has made her family accept charity. Ginny's attitude creates further friction between the two sisters, and for awhile it seems that nothing will ever be the same.
In this fine novel Mary Stolz describes an intelligent young girl's adjustment to her world, and her struggle to accept a new way of life.« less