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"You never know where this life will take you," Henry Olsen tells Laker Wyatt when he finds the boy could, penniless, and sleeping on the street. Raised by his hapless, childlike mother, Laker has often had to act more like a caretaker than a son. It's become easy for him to soothe her with a cup of tea or fake a phone call to her boss on a bad day. But when stepfather number two, Rick the Prick, comes on the scene, everything changes. After Laker fights with Rick, his mother, Audrey, does the unimaginable: She kicks her son out. Drifting aimlessly, Laker meets Henry, eighty-three, a widower with family troubles of his own. Being with Henry brings its own challenges, as well as surprises. How these two disparate souls -- an angry, homeless teenager and a lonely, crotchety old man -- come to know and care for each other makes a sometimes funny, often poignant, and ultimately moving novel about truth and family and the courage it takes to search for these in unexpected places.
 
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April 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0789425882Title: Being with Henry
Author(s): Martha Brooks
ISBN: 0-7894-2588-2 / 978-0-7894-2588-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
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November 1999 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0888993773Title: Being with Henry
Author(s): Martha Brooks
ISBN: 0-88899-377-3 / 978-0-88899-377-9 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: House of Anansi / Not Applicable
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March 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0888995024Title: Being with Henry
Author(s): Martha Brooks
ISBN: 0-88899-502-4 / 978-0-88899-502-5 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: House of Anansi / Not Applicable
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