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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
A LaFaye |
| ISBN: | 0689857306 9780689857300 |
| OCLC Number: | 52464837 |
| Awards: | Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2005. |
| Target Audience: | 8-12. |
| Description: | 144 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Lightning in the grass -- Clearing the fog -- What a boy is worth -- Dunce goes to school -- Fences inside and out -- Done with the world -- Evil in dark truth -- Weight of guilt -- Inviting in and letting go -- Flower with slices for petals -- Cutting fences, building ties -- War and myths -- Words through the walls -- Running and blood -- Death and doorways -- Tears that bind -- Cattle and chances -- What we learn -- Fence cutting -- The hunt -- A little pride to bring us together -- The fences we build. |
| Responsibility: | A. LaFaye. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Fiction.
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