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Book Club Kit : Cold Sassy Tree (10 copies) Olive Ann Burns.

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.

Record details

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
"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.
Subject: Families > Georgia > Fiction.
Country life > Georgia > Fiction.
Country life. > Georgia > Fiction.
Familles > Géorgie (État) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / Historical.
Country life.
Families.
Georgia.
Bildungsromans.
> Fiction. Country life > Georgia.
> Fiction. Family > Georgia.
Genre: Humorous stories.
Historical fiction.
Humorous stories.
Pastoral fiction.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Pastoral fiction.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Romans pastoraux.


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