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Author Robinson, Mabel Louise, 1874-1962.

Title Bright Island / Mabel L. Robinson ; with decorations by Lynd Ward.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Random House, [2012]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Fiction  J Robinson    ---  Available
Edition 75th anniversary ed.
Description 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
Source NBK 12/12 PPLY
Awards Newbery Honor Book, 1938.
Subject Boarding schools -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Maine -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Islands -- Maine -- Fiction.
Maine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Added Author Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985, illustrator.
ISBN 9780394809861
0394809866

 
    
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