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At the Home

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 5, Adult
Page count: 45

Author

E. L.
Konigsburg

Appeared in

Throwing Shadows

Story Summary

While accompanying his Mom to an old folks home where she volunteers, Philip, out of boredom, records the beginning of a story told by a Hungarian women about her youth. Philip soon gets drawn into the story and returns to the home daily to finish her story only to find himself a hero for caring and all the other residents lining up to tell there stories.