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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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Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Fiction
J Robinson
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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.
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Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985, illustrator.
ISBN
9780394809861
0394809866
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