Middle-grade novel · Fiction
Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt
About the book
In 1968, eighth-grader Doug Swieteck moves to a small town and finds new purpose through Audubon's bird paintings at the local library.
Reading notes
A moving story about art and second chances; includes an abusive father and a brother returning wounded from the Vietnam War.
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Book details
- Author
- Gary D. Schmidt
- First published
- 2011
- Suggested ages
- Ages 10–14 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Confident reader
- Topics
- art, family, 1960s
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780544022805 · Sandpiper, 2011 · paperback
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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