Canning Season
Author | : Polly Horvath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1437970559 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781437970555 |
Rating | : 4/5 (555 Downloads) |
Download or read book Canning Season written by Polly Horvath and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 13-year-old Ratchet Clark, a lonely girl with a deformity on her shoulder blade, whose mother sends her off for the summer to stay with two distant relatives in a huge house in a remote place in Maine. They turn out to be 91-year-old twins, Tilly and Penpen, who provide a lot of amusement for Ratchet. She also gets to know another lonely teenager, Harper. The book is filled with dark humor and combines realistic and fantasy elements. Winner of a National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Ages 12 and up.