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Peace, O River Study Guide

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by Nancy Garden
About 8 pages (2,311 words)
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Setting

Wealthy River View and less affluent Hastings Bay, towns on opposite sides of a river in present day Massachusetts, are both possible sites for a nuclear waste disposal plant.

The all-pervasive feud between River View and Hastings Bay, is described by Jon when Kate first moves back to River View: "They're supposed to hate us and we're supposed to hate them. . .

It's . . . well, dumb." Less evident when students went to elementary school in their respective towns, the animosity is clear when students from both towns attend the same regional high school.

Whenever anything bad happens.....

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Peace, O River from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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