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Available
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Publication
HarperCollins (1996), Edition: Reprint, 192 pages
Description
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
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LibraryThing member countrylife
Once On This Island is a very nicely done YA story about how one family was affected by the war of 1812. There are three children, the oldest a girl of sixteen, a brother, and the youngest sister, Mary, twelve, who is the narrator of this story. Their mother died giving birth to Mary, and now they
The lilacs of Mackinac Island are now calling to me, and I must visit.
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and their father are working their family farm on Mackinac Island. But there was trouble across the ocean, and it was heading their way. Papa takes up arms to resist the British, expecting to leave his children in charge of the farm for the season. The lilacs of Mackinac Island are now calling to me, and I must visit.
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LibraryThing member TrgLlyLibrarian
Particularly good because it is set during the War of 1812, an event sorely neglected in most grade school education.
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Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 1998)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 1999)
Great Lakes Book Award (Winner — Children's — 1996)
Michigan Notable Books (1996)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1993
Physical description
192 p.; 5.13 inches
ISBN
0064406199 / 9780064406192