- Secrets, Fathers, Depressions, Newbery Medal
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Clare Vanderpool
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 196
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books, Listening Library (Audio), Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606238755
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