Status
Available
Local notes
PB Bya
Collection
Genres
Publication
Puffin Books (1986), 160 pages
Description
After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.
Subjects
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Honor — 1987)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1988)
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 1987)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1988)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1995)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1988)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 1991)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1987)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1988)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 1988)
Original language
English
Physical description
160 p.; 5 inches
Similar in this library
Blue Heron by Avi
Lexile
710L
Pages
160