- Death, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's stories
A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his friend
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Doris Buchanan Smith
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 85
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Puffin Books, Heinemann
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780434930166
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