- Fiction, Friendship, Juvenile Fiction, Children's fiction
The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
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Classical in form, earnest, warm and effortless.
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- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Newton Peck
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Dell, Yearling
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394927008
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First sentence
“I stood stock-still in the kitchen while my mother read the note.”
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