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Book Club Kit : Cold Sassy Tree (10 copies) Cover Image Kit Kit

Book Club Kit : Cold Sassy Tree (10 copies)

Burns, Olive Ann. (Author).

Summary: "Olive Ann Burns's enormously popular bestseller has warmed the hearts of readers since its original publication by Houghton Mifflin in 1984. Now Houghton celebrates its return to our house with a gorgeous new paperback edition. Set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Burns's novel centers on the charming fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee decides to marry the young Miss Love Simpson a mere three weeks after his wife -- Will's grandmother -- has died, he inspires a whirlwind of local gossip. Young Will suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, which he gracefully humors and endures; meanwhile, he has his own growing to do and mischief to find"--Publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 9780618919710 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0618919716 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 391 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

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"A Mariner book."
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.3 22 SD Quiz 7106 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.

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