After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
Record details
ISBN:0689857306 (hardcover)
ISBN:97806898573010 (hardcover)
Physical Description:144 p. ; 22 cm.. print
Publisher:New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Novel.
Formatted Contents Note:
Lightning in the grass -- Clearing the fog -- Boy is worth -- dunce goes to school -- Fences inside and out -- Done with the world -- Evil in dark truth -- Weight of guilt -- Inviting in and letting go -- Flower with slices for petals -- Cutting fences, building ties -- War and myths -- Words through the walls -- Running and blood -- Death and doorways -- Tears that bind -- Cattle and changes -- What we learn -- Fence cutting.
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