Author : Polly Horvath
Release : 2010-01
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 555/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Canning Season by : Polly Horvath
Download or read book Canning Season written by Polly Horvath. This book was released on 2010-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 13-year-old Ratchet Clark, a lonely girl with a deformity on her shoulder blade, whose mother sends her off for the summer to stay with two distant relatives in a huge house in a remote place in Maine. They turn out to be 91-year-old twins, Tilly and Penpen, who provide a lot of amusement for Ratchet. She also gets to know another lonely teenager, Harper. The book is filled with dark humor and combines realistic and fantasy elements. Winner of a National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Ages 12 and up.