Arthur, For the Very First Time: A Coming-of-Age Novel for Kids (Ages 8-12) About Discovery and Love on a Summer Farm

Arthur, For the Very First Time: A Coming-of-Age Novel for Kids (Ages 8-12) About Discovery and Love on a Summer Farm

<p>Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's <em>real</em> -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down. For the first time Arthur wonders what's real and what's not.</p><p>His aunt and uncle do things Arthur's parents would never do -- like climbing out windows to sit in trees, singing to their pet pig, and speaking French to a pet chicken. Life on the farm happens much too fast to write down -- sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrible. Arthur begins to understand there is more than one way of seeing and doing and loving. And he realizes there's a whole world just waiting to be discovered.</p>