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When the Whippoorwill Calls
By Ransom, Candice F. & Root, Kimberly Bulcken
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68812-729-9
- Publisher
- New York : Tambourine Books, c1995.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1995
Gr 2-5 Young Polly describes how her family is removed from their land in the Blue Ridge Mountains when the government buys it to create Shenandoah National Park. They are given a modern house and land in exchange, but they miss the hills they have called home. At the end of the story, romanticized by hindsight, Polly's father is reconciled to his loss when he and the girl return to the land and find Merk...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
