And a certain family named Tillerman becomes instrumental in teaching Jeff about family ties, inner strength, and trust. And as the Professor struggles to be the father Jeff needs, and as Jeff struggles to pick up the pieces of his life, they settle in the little Maryland town of Crisfield. Out of the experience Jeff learns to understand both his parents better…and to judge better between being loved and being used. In fact, it is a summer of such bitter disillusionment, such shattering betrayal, that it profoundly screws up Jeffs young life. After a summer of basking in her love, the memory of that feeling keeps him going through another yearand the hope of another summer in Charleston.īut the second summer in Gambos house isnt the same. Then one summer, Melody gets in touch and says she wants Jeff to stay with her and her great-grandmother in their mansion in Charleston. Its heartbreaking to see the effect on a boy of never feeling loved. Jeff spends the next five years driven by a need to stay out of his fathers way, afraid that if he disrupts the Professors routine, he will go away too. Jeff Greene is seven years old when his mother, Melody, leaves him and his tight-lipped, emotionless father, the Professor. And let me tell you, its one moving story. This 1984 Newbery Honor Book, from the acclaimed seven-book Tillerman cycle, fills in the back story of a character introduced in Diceys Song.
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