When the Road Ends | |
Author: | Jean Thesman |
Language: | English |
Subject: | young adult literature |
Published: | Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1992[1] |
Media Type: | Book |
Pages: | 184 |
Isbn: | 9780395595077 |
Oclc: | 23693602 |
When the Road Ends (1992) is a young-adult novel by Jean Thesman.[2]
Twelve-year-old Mary Jack is in the foster home of a conscientious but clueless Episcopal priest, Father Matt, and his selfish troubled wife Jill. Also in their care is the silent Jane, a seven-year-old girl who had been abused. The house becomes further troubled by the introduction of an Adam, age 14; but when Matt's injured sister comes to live with them, Jill threatens to leave. In order to save his marriage, Matt sends the children and his sister to live in a cabin in the mountains, supposedly with the help of a mean housekeeper who abandons them. They are forced to work together and become a family, with Mary Jack becoming the reluctant "adult" while still trying to reclaim her own childhood.[3] [4]