Ferriss and Miss Cowper, the latter even teaching him to read.

By the end of the novel, Doug retrieves all of the pages from their respective owners and returns them to the library.ĭespite some suspicion surrounding Doug because of Christopher’s supposed crimes, Doug finds acceptance at school from certain teachers, like Mr. Doug is sad to learn that the library is cutting pictures out of the book and selling them off. Powell, Doug begins learning to draw and paint the birds. Under the tutelage of a worker there, Mr. He also visits the library regularly, where an illustrated book of birds by John J Audubon is kept behind glass. On one such delivery, he meets and befriends the eccentric writer, Mrs. Doug’s mother worries that when Lucas returns from fighting in Vietnam, there will be no room for him in their new, smaller home.Īt Marysville, Doug meets Lil, the daughter of a local deli, and he begins making deliveries for her father. Doug’s mother breaks up her beloved garden plot, and Doug’s best friend, Holling Hoodhood, gives him Joe Pepitone’s jacket as a parting gift. As the story opens, Doug’s father loses his job, forcing the family to move to Marysville, New York. Christopher quickly stole the hat and passed it around to his friends, devastating Doug. Doug relates that his most prized possession came from Joe Pepitone, a major league baseball player who visited Doug’s high school and left him his baseball cap. Doug’s soul comfort is making his mother, an avid homemaker and gardener, smile. Russell Aaron Copland's Autobiography: Manuscript Edition, and he stopped laughing.Doug Swieteck, a middle schooler, is the child of an abusive, alcoholic father with two abusive, trouble-maker brothers, Christopher and Lucas. Russell took the banana bread outside to break it up for the birds-'Let's hope they like bananas'-and then I showed Mr. Russell said, 'I hate bananas too,' and you can imagine us all laughing until we were crying and finally Mrs. Russell came out to the kitchen to see what was so funny and she showed him the banana bread and he said, 'I hate bananas,' and we all started to laugh until Mrs. Russell picked up the plate with the banana bread on it, and you might not believe this, but she started to laugh and laugh a d laugh, until Mr. Russell said, 'Jam? Then you wouldn't be able to taste the bananas,' and James said, 'Ma, I hate bananas,' and she said, 'But I'm sure that Doug enjoys them,' and I said, 'I think I'm still full from lunch, so the milk's fine,' and then Mrs. Banana bread! And James said, 'How about we have some jam with that?' and Mrs.

Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys', but it didn't help, because when Mrs. 'And I have a special treat for you,' she said. Russell made us both sit down with a glass of milk.

Okay for now book