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BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, and finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.
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"This book is amazing it maybe sad by its still awsome. READ IT JUST READ IT!!!"
— Caylah (5 out of 5 stars)
The Day My Mother Left Listener Reviews
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" Closer to three stars but I disliked the characters enough to only give two. I seriously wanted to slap both parents throughout most of the book. "
— Brandee, 1/16/2014 -
" I really just felt like this was a nothing book. Nothing happened... "
— Meryl, 11/24/2013 -
" This book was just meh for me. The main character is a 10 year-old boy whose mother left the family for another man. He copes with the divorce by drawing and painting, mostly birds, which is what interested me in the novel. Evidently this book was semi-autobiographical for the author. "
— Laura, 8/25/2013 -
" i learned that this book talks about how you should treasure someone "
— minnie, 8/10/2013 -
" i find this book very interesting, this book! It has suspense and very interesting at the beginning. I really recommend you this book! "
— Jose, 5/30/2013 -
" A poignant and realistic look at divorce. "
— Karla, 11/27/2012 -
" Prosek tells a moving tale about a boy coping with his feelings of abandonment after his mother leaves and his parents divorce. Although it's a YA novel I think this book can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. "
— Cathy, 10/28/2012 -
" It was crummy "
— Addy, 8/13/2012 -
" Read in 6th grade, SO good! pretty sad,, but exelent read! "
— Liza, 4/27/2012 -
" Sad. But good. I loved it. "
— Courtney, 2/28/2012 -
" I cried. That's all that needs to be said. It was beautiful. "
— adi, 12/14/2011 -
" I can't find fault with the writing here and I admired the paintings especially as related to the text. This was just so emotionally sad though that I found it draining and I spent a good portion of the book nervous for this character. "
— Tracie, 8/9/2011 -
" really good book for artists. "
— Rachel, 5/7/2011 -
" This book was so stilted and stylistically weird, that I only got through about 30 pages. Done! "
— Cory, 4/4/2011 -
" This book was so very sad "
— Karimah, 3/7/2011 -
" really good book for artists. "
— Rachel, 1/8/2011 -
" i find this book very interesting, this book! It has suspense and very interesting at the beginning. I really recommend you this book! "
— Jose, 12/3/2010 -
" A poignant and realistic look at divorce. "
— Karla, 8/18/2010 -
" Prosek tells a moving tale about a boy coping with his feelings of abandonment after his mother leaves and his parents divorce. Although it's a YA novel I think this book can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. "
— Cathy, 7/6/2010 -
" This book was just meh for me. The main character is a 10 year-old boy whose mother left the family for another man. He copes with the divorce by drawing and painting, mostly birds, which is what interested me in the novel. Evidently this book was semi-autobiographical for the author. "
— Laura, 6/28/2010 -
" i learned that this book talks about how you should treasure someone "
— minnie, 3/9/2010 -
" Read in 6th grade, SO good! pretty sad,, but exelent read! "
— Liza, 1/20/2010 -
" Sad. But good. I loved it. "
— Courtney, 9/20/2008 -
" I cried. That's all that needs to be said. It was beautiful. "
— adi, 3/31/2008
About Joel Johnstone
Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling
author of Okay for Now, the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor
book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and the Newbery Honor
book The Wednesday Wars. He
is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.