- Uncles, Foster home care, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Polly Horvath
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 167
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Square Fish, Farrar Straus Giroux
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786248322
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On Open Library, 7 have read it and 41 want to.
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