A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea
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Book Overview
From swimming to the bottom of the ocean to reclaim a sunken boat, to standing up to bullies, to asking questions that might have painful answers, twelve year-old Donovan Sanger has some capabilities that the grown-ups around don't. This is why his dad has asked Donovan to go spend the summer with an Aunt and Uncle he barely knows. Aunt Hattie has become very ill with lung cancer and she and Uncle Bix need "a little moral support," as Donovan's dad...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1571316574
ISBN13:9781571316578
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:Milkweed Editions
Length:152 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.0"
Age Range:8 to 13 years
Grade Range:Grades 3 to 8
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A vivid story of a pre-teen sent to spend summer with an ex-con uncle and an aunt who's dying from l
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Deserving of ongoing mention is John Thomson's novel Small Boat At The Bottom Of The Sea, a vivid story of a pre-teen sent to spend summer with an ex-con uncle and an aunt who's dying from lung cancer. His summer will involve not only helping his uncle, but getting to know his aunt, coming to terms with her death, and maybe even accepting his uncle hasn't quite left his past behind in this moving story of discovery.
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