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Available
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PB Mac
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Publication
HarperCollins (2002), Edition: 1st HT Edition, 128 pages
Description
Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently.
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Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 1984)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — 1983)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1995)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1983)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
128 p.; 5.25 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member BookMystique
Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down.
His aunt and uncle do things Arthur's parents would never do -- like climbing out windows to sit in trees, singing to their pet pig, and speaking French to a pet chicken. Life on the farm happens much too fast to write down -- sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrible. Arthur begins to understand there is more than one way of seeing and doing and loving. And he realizes there's a whole world just waiting to be discovered. From Amazon
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For the first time Arthur wonders what's real and what's not.His aunt and uncle do things Arthur's parents would never do -- like climbing out windows to sit in trees, singing to their pet pig, and speaking French to a pet chicken. Life on the farm happens much too fast to write down -- sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrible. Arthur begins to understand there is more than one way of seeing and doing and loving. And he realizes there's a whole world just waiting to be discovered. From Amazon
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LibraryThing member fuzzi
Arthur's parents are having problems, so he winds up at his great-aunt and uncle's farm for the summer. He meets a chicken that responds to commands in French, sees a pregnant pig that likes being serenaded in song by Arthur's great-uncle, meets a neighborhood girl who calls him "Mouse".
And then
Cute story, with Arthur learning more about himself than he ever though of before.
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things get interesting.Cute story, with Arthur learning more about himself than he ever though of before.
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Pages
128