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The year of the gopher

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1987

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In his senior year of high school, seventeen-year-old George begins to seriously question his parents' plans and assumptions about his future and decides to try to find his own way.

Themes
siblingssiblingsMore like thisLess of thisdysfunctional familydysfunctional familyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
medium · 202 pages

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