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Gentlehands By M. E Kerr
The novel Gentlehands by M.E Kerr is a story set in the ‘70’s with action, romance, and raccoons ending with a secret long forgotten that rips the small ocean community apart. The story explained the life of one boy that falls in love with another girl and leads to the discovery of one of the many high-ranking nazies fleeing defeated Germany. The Theme of Gentlehands is don’t judge by appearance.
The first main conflict in the book Gentlehands is when Buddy returns home from swimming with Skye and his father becomes increasingly annoyed and finally socks Buddy twice in the backyard. This relates to the theme because Buddy's father thinks that Skye is a spoiled mean snob just because she is rich. He also thinks that because Skye is rich, she

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