- Brothers and sisters, Reading (Elementary), Juvenile fiction, People with mental disabilities
Sara's life has always flowed smoothly, like the gliding swans on the lake, until her little brother Charlie disappears. Then Sara is forced to see her life in a whole new way.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Betsy Cromer Byars
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Library Reproduction Services, Viking, Puffin
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781557360304
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“Sara Godfrey was lying on the bed tying a kerchief on the dog, Boysie.”
Betsy Cromer Byars (born August 7, 1928) is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) and an Edgar Award for Wanted ... Mud Blossom (1991). Byars has been called "one of the ten best writers for children in the world" by Nancy Chambers, editor of the British literary journal Signal, and in 1987 Byars received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement from the Catholic Library Association. Due to the popularity of her books with children, she has also been listed as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
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