| Description |
144 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
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. |
| Audience |
8-12. |
| Contents |
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 -- The hunt -- A little pride to bring us together -- The fences we build. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 4.0 79584. |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Orphans -- Fiction.
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Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0689857306 hardcover |
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1416913211 |
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