| Description |
218 pages ; 20 cm |
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age Children |
| Note |
"A Yearling book." |
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"Portions of this novel appeared in ... the magazines Panurge, Stand, and in A Kind of Heaven"--Title page verso. |
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Originally published: Great Britain : Hodder Children's Books, 2003. |
| Audience |
008-up. |
| Summary |
Despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future. |
| Awards |
Winner of the Whitbread award ; winner of the Boston Globe Horn Book award. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer |
| Subject |
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Conduct of life. |
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Hope -- Juvenile fiction.
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Hope. |
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) |
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Juvenile fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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| ISBN |
0440420121 (paperback) |
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9780440420125 (paperback) |
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1415635714 (BWI bdg.) |
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9781415635711 (BWI bdg.) |
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1417726571 |
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9781417726578 |
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