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Moving to his grandparents' centuries-old farm after the death of his mother, Cole finds his grief eased by his new life and friends but becomes concerned as his father's grief continues to deepen.

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Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt

1957 -
American
Gary D. Schmidt is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has written books about authors Katherine Paterson and Rob... See more

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Reviews

Plumfield Moms

The Sin Eater
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
No one who has read Gary D. Schmidt’s novels or our previous reviews will be surprised that this book deals with some very difficult circumstances. But this is Schmidt’s first book, so the themes we have come to expect in his “middle school boy” stories are shadows in this one....

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Kirkus Reviews

The Sin Eater
In Schmidt's sensitively written first novel, Cole and his widower father journey to his maternal grandparents' home in Albion, N.H...

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