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Frenchtown Summer — Content Guide for Parents

By Cormier, RobertDelacorte PressISBN 9780385327046113 pages
Frenchtown Summer

Found in this book

  • ViolenceSupporting
  • Scary contentSupporting
  • ReligionSupportingChristian
  • Sexual contentBrief

Not found

  • Race & culture
  • Climate
  • Gender roles

Couldn't confirm

  • Profanity
  • Gender & orientation
  • Profanity: The sources don't say whether the book contains swear words.
  • Gender & orientation: The sources describe much of the book but never say whether any character is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, so this can't be ruled out.

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Religion

PRESENT

Contains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.

About this book

A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Frenchtown Summer appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    The book includes the unsolved murder of a girl years earlier, an uncle's suicide, a failed suicide, and bullies on the street. A murder mystery, the woods where a girl's body was found, and deaths in the family give many pieces a dark, frightening tone.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have violence?

    Found (Supporting): The book includes the unsolved murder of a girl years earlier, an uncle's suicide, a failed suicide, and bullies on the street.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have scary content?

    Found (Supporting): A murder mystery, the woods where a girl's body was found, and deaths in the family give many pieces a dark, frightening tone.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have religion?

    Found (Supporting, Christian): Eugene's French Catholic family goes to church, lights candles for a lost baby, and Eugene worries about an unconfessed sin and hell.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have race & culture?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have profanity?

    Couldn't confirm: The sources don't say whether the book contains swear words.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have climate?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have sexual content?

    Found (Brief): Eugene feels guilty about private moments in bed at night that he sees as an unconfessed sin.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have gender roles?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Frenchtown Summer have gender & orientation?

    Couldn't confirm: The sources describe much of the book but never say whether any character is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, so this can't be ruled out.