A Separate Peace

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

Author: John Knowles
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/01/2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.42w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780743253970

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 545 / Separate Peace