December stillness

Mary Downing Hahn

About this book

Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • homeless persons
  • ptsd
  • veterans
  • vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975
  • vietnam war, 1961-1975
  • vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction