| Edition |
1st Scholastic trade pbk. printing, June 2003. |
| Description |
115 pages ; 20 cm |
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age Children |
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age Children |
| Summary |
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. When?: World War II Where?: A cookcamp in the Canadian woods Why?: He's not really sure. One summer, a 5-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a cookcamp. The camp is home to 9 men who are building a road through the woods. The boy misses his mother, but at the same time the camp becomes home--a special home where he learns to spit and rides the tractor. It's a wonderful summer, but then he lets slip to his grandmother about "Uncle Casey" and she writes seven letters to his mother. Seven letters that she mails "good and hard." A short while later, the boy returns home. |
| Subject |
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grandmothers. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cooks -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cooks. |
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Roads -- Juvenile fiction.
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Roads. |
| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
0439523575 paperback |
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9780439523578 paperback |
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