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Author Peet, Mal, author.

Title Beck / Mal Peet ; with Meg Rosoff.

Publication Info. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2017]
copyright 2016

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  HI F Peet    ---  Available
Edition First U.S. edition 2017.
Description 261 pages ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Study Program AR UG RL 5.4 PTS 9 188891.
Note Manuscript completed by Meg Rosoff.
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada.
Audience Ages 16 & up.
Grades 11 & up.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject Child slaves -- Juvenile fiction.
Homeless children -- Abuse of -- Canada -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Home -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Abuse of -- Canada -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction.
Child slaves -- Fiction.
Homeless persons -- Fiction.
Home -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Abuse of -- Canada -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Child labor -- Canada -- Fiction.
Homeless persons -- Fiction.
Home -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Canada -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Added Author Rosoff, Meg, 1956- contributor.
ISBN 9780763678425 (hardcover) : 22.00

 
    
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