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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Atheneum
Publication date
March 1, 1984
Pages
154
Binding
School and Library
Book category
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13
9780689310171
ISBN-10
068931017X
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$17.95
Other format details
juvenile
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Often left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her traveling-salesman father, Ellen learns, through a terrifying experience, to distinguish between real and false fears.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Ellen had never been out of the low hill country of northeastern Mississippi. Since the death of her mother many years before, and the death of her younger brother only a year or so earlier, she and her father had shared their cabin and five acres of land alone. Except for Sleet, the horse that-because he feared lightning and thunder-had thrown and killed her brother. Ellen was terrified of Sleet. It was summer. Ellen's father's newest job-he had had many-was as a calendar salesman, so he was gone a great deal of the time. Her only contact with the outside world was through the telephone and news programs on the TV. The family's nearest neighbor was Granny Bo, an old woman full of stories of days past and dark forebodings about the present and future, which she read from signs and portents she clearly accepted as true. Ellen believed and shared Granny Bo's fears even when she did not want to. Then, stirring events in the nearby town, a stranger and his wife living in a nearby abandoned house, a kidnapping, and deeper and deeper questions in Ellen's mind about everyone she knew-including her father and Granny Bo-conspired to make Ellen face her fears and find her courage, just when it was most needed.
Editions
Paperback
Reissue edition from Yearling Books (May 1, 1993)
9780440400172 | details & prices | 154 pages | 5.25 × 7.50 × 0.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 4-6 | 0.25 lbs | List price $3.99
About: Ellen learns the difference between real and imaginary fears when she discovers that she alone can rescue a kidnapped child from a nearby Mississippi town
About: Ellen learns the difference between real and imaginary fears when she discovers that she alone can rescue a kidnapped child from a nearby Mississippi town
School and Library
The price comparison is for this edition
from Atheneum (March 1, 1984)
9780689310171 | details & prices | 154 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.70 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Ellen learns the difference between real and imaginary fears when she discovers that she alone can rescue a kidnapped child from a nearby Mississippi town
About: Ellen learns the difference between real and imaginary fears when she discovers that she alone can rescue a kidnapped child from a nearby Mississippi town
Reinforced
With Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Reissue edition from Demco Media (May 1, 1993)
9780606124508 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 4-6 | 0.45 lbs | List price $10.00
About: Ellen learns the difference between real and imaginary fears when she discovers that she alone can rescue a kidnapped child from a nearby Mississippi town
About: Ellen learns the difference between real and imaginary fears when she discovers that she alone can rescue a kidnapped child from a nearby Mississippi town
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