- Newbery Medal, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Friendship
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph Krumgold
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Apollo, Lutterworth Press, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780690046984
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First sentence
“Up until I turned twelve years old the kind of friends I had were what you'd expect.”
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