The cloud chamber
by Joyce Maynard · October 24, 2006
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
SuicideMiddle schoolsProblem familiesMental DepressionJuvenile fictionFamily problemsFictionSchoolsFathersHistoryChildren's fictionDepression, mental, fiction