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Title:
Bright Island
Author:
Robinson, Mabel Louise, 1874-1962.
Publication Date as Range:
2012

2012,

1937
ISBN:
9780394909868
Edition:
75th anniversary edition
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [2012]
Physical Description:
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Awards:
Newbery Honor Book, 1938.
Abstract:
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling, " and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 6.1 10 Quiz 19009 English fiction.
Subject Term:
Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

City and town life -- Maine -- Juvenile fiction.

Coming of age -- Juvenile fiction.

Islands -- Maine -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Maine -- Fiction.

Daughters -- Maine -- Fiction.

Islands -- Maine -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women.

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century.

JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / City & Town Life.
Geographic Term:
Maine -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Maine -- Fiction.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Added Author:
Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985
Accelerated Reader:
6.1
Holds: