Building BlocksBrann Connell, a twelve-year-old boy who believes his father is a "loser," travels back in time thirty years and learns something about his father as a little boy. In a single mystifying day of adventure, Brann learns that fate is something both to guide and accept. A 1984 Library Journal Best YA Book of the Year. |
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... father , and the big eyes set deep into their faces . Brann looked like his father , with quiet gray eyes that took things in but didn't let them out . His red hair lay straight and flat , like his father's pale brown hair . Brann's father ...
... father , and the big eyes set deep into their faces . Brann looked like his father , with quiet gray eyes that took things in but didn't let them out . His red hair lay straight and flat , like his father's pale brown hair . Brann's father ...
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... Brann's father repeated the tired information . " His daughters weren't interested . " " But still " " And I guess he had a good idea of how much I liked it , " Brann's father said . " Maybe he wanted to give me something , maybe he was ...
... Brann's father repeated the tired information . " His daughters weren't interested . " " But still " " And I guess he had a good idea of how much I liked it , " Brann's father said . " Maybe he wanted to give me something , maybe he was ...
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... His father's tower had had solidity and grace , both . Brann's towers didn't look the way they had looked in his imagination . They never did . His father knew without thinking what shape belonged where , and how wide the base had to be ...
... His father's tower had had solidity and grace , both . Brann's towers didn't look the way they had looked in his imagination . They never did . His father knew without thinking what shape belonged where , and how wide the base had to be ...
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