Author

Publication

1977 - Scholastic Inc., New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

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Word Count

29750 words, Guess

Page Count

119 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCJ
  • DDC[Fic]

Description

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

First Sentence

That first summer I was fifteen... the summer when the judge sent me to my Unlce Harold's farm up in northern Minnesota on the edge of the woods that went north forever.

Subjects

Topics

FictionVeteransReclusesFriendshipJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionMinnesota, fiction

Places

Minnesota

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