![]() ![]() ![]() An old yellow house in the woods attracts both boys’ interest. Genie and Ernie settle into a routine at their grandparents’, helping with chores, getting to know a local girl named Tess-Ernie’s eventual mutual crush-meeting a cast of local characters, attending church with their grandmother, and exploring the woods near their grandparents’ house. Brooke doesn’t feel comfortable leaving the house because he becomes disoriented when he doesn’t know where things are and can’t respond to threats in his environment. ![]() He also discovers, on his first morning in Virginia, that his grandfather has become blind after developing glaucoma. Genie discovers that both his grandparents are still mourning the loss of their son. Genie’s dad blames Brooke for pressuring Genie’s Uncle Wood into joining the armed forces rather than becoming a firefighter-Wood was killed in the Desert Storm conflict of the early 1990s. Genie’s dad has been estranged from his own father Brooke, refusing to talk to him or take his kids to visit. For a month during the summer, while their own parents work out marital difficulties, they send the brothers to Virginia to visit their dad’s parents-whom the boys hardly know. This guide uses the 2017 Atheneum edition of the novel.ġ1-year-old protagonist Genie and his brother, 13-year-old Ernie, live in Brooklyn. ![]()
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