Status
Checked out
Due 2024-07-16
Call number
Collection
Publication
Puffin (2001), Edition: New Ed, 304 pages
Description
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
Subjects
Awards
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1985)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 1985)
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Winner — 1982)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Middle School — 2018)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Winner — Middle School — 1991)
WAYRBA: Western Australia Young Readers Book Award (Winner — Older Readers — 1983)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1982)
CCBC Choices (Fiction for Older Readers — 1982)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Middle School — 1990)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1981
Physical description
304 p.
ISBN
0140315411 / 9780140315417