The root cellar 1981
By Janet Lunn, Janet Lunn; Scott Cameron (illustrator), Janet Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn
- Children's stories, American, Farm life, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
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Earnest, grave, intimate and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Lester & Orpen Dennys, Scribner, Penguin Books Canada, Limited
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781895555394
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Popular Canadian author of children's historical novels. She was chair of the Writer's Union of Canada.
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