Have you ever not had a dad for awhile? Well Nate didn’t for a long time in his life. In the book The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard, . Nate and his a younger sister didn’t have a dad for a long period time. The story takes place in modern time on a farm and in a hospital. The turning point is when Nate and his sister came home on the bus that day the couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw their dad being dragged away by the police with blood pouring down his face, and was raised into the ambulance on a stretcher, and was drove away. One conflict is that now Nate and his sister have no clue what is going on and all they know that their dad is gone. Another is that now the mother is worried because now the dad isn’t there to help out on the farm. The protagonist is Nate and the antagonist is his dad. Will Nate ever get his dad back or will he never see him again? I recommend this book for people who are interested and enjoy a sadder story, I also recommend it to middle school kids and above.
The Cloud Chamber
By Joyce Maynard
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 6 - 8 | Grade 6 | n/a | 5.6 | 60120 |
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN-13: 9781416926993
ISBN-10: 1416926992
Published on 10/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
Book Reviews (1)
That's terrible, I'd be left in tears if my dad died like that
good detail