- Juvenile fiction, Brothers and sisters, Single-parent families, Fiction
With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers but somehow things just don't seem to be working right.
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Earnest, classical in form, spare and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Betsy Cromer Byars, Troy Howell
- First published
- August 1, 1983
- Pages
- 131
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company, Cornerstone Books, Laurel-Leaf Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781453294826
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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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