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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Dell Pub Co
Publication date December 1, 1988
Binding Paperback
Edition Reissue
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9780440925859
ISBN-10 0440925851
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $2.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Fifteen-year-old Chris has just failed tenth grade, can find no summer work in his Newfoundland town, and is accused of a crime he cannot remember committing
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment. Even his easy-going, humorous attitude fails to steady him as he stumbles through the summer after grade ten. He’s failed his year, he can’t find a summer job, and he’s incredibly bored. So the first thing he heads for is trouble -- trouble that ends in a confrontation with the law. Work as a counselor at a summer camp offers the challenge of a fresh start, but it is here, amid new responsibilities, that he encounters his toughest test as a young man.

Winner of the first Canadian Young Adult Book Award and named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, Far from Shore was hailed as a unique and innovative novel when it was first published in 1980. As he has done throughout his career, Kevin Major broke new ground by tackling a multinarrative structure in a young adult novel -- an approach much imitated since but never more convincingly.


Editions
Hardcover
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from Delacorte Pr (September 1, 1981)
9780385282666 | details & prices | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $14.95
About: Fifteen-year-old Chris has just failed tenth grade, can find no summer work in his Newfoundland town, and is accused of a crime he cannot remember committing
from I E Clark (May 1, 1980)
9780772013125 | details & prices | List price $9.95
About: Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment.
Paperback
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from Groundwood Books (March 1, 2004)
9780888995681 | details & prices | 250 pages | 3.75 × 7.00 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.40 lbs | List price $9.95
About: Follows the lives of a Newfoundland family for several months as they deal with the father's drinking and unemployment, the son's poor choice of friends and subsequent problems, and general familial deterioration.
from Stoddart Kids (November 1, 1998)
9780773674394 | details & prices | 192 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.30 lbs | List price $5.99
About: Follows the lives of a Newfoundland family for several months as they deal with the father's drinking and unemployment, the son's poor choice of friends and subsequent problems, and general familial deterioration
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Reissue edition from Dell Pub Co (December 1, 1988)
9780440925859 | details & prices | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $2.95
About: Fifteen-year-old Chris has just failed tenth grade, can find no summer work in his Newfoundland town, and is accused of a crime he cannot remember committing
Reinforced
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from Demco Media (April 30, 2004)
9780606302562 | details & prices | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $15.60
About: Follows the lives of a Newfoundland family for several months as they deal with the father's drinking and unemployment, the son's poor choice of friends and subsequent problems, and general familial deterioration.
from Demco Media (June 1, 1995)
9780606171663 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.45 lbs | List price $12.37
About: Follows the lives of a Newfoundland family for several months as they deal with the father's drinking and unemployment, the son's poor choice of friends and subsequent problems, and general familial deterioration
Prebinding
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from Turtleback Books (March 1, 2004)
9781417742783 | details & prices | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $17.15
About: Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment.
from Turtleback Books (May 1, 2000)
9780613203593 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.45 lbs | List price $13.25
About: Follows the lives of a Newfoundland family for several months as they deal with the father's drinking and unemployment, the son's poor choice of friends and subsequent problems, and general familial deterioration

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