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Me and Billy
By Collier, James Lincoln
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76145-174-7
- Publisher
- New York : Marshall Cavendish, c2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2005
Gr 5-9 A small gem from an award-winning author. Set in the Old West, the story follows Billy Foster and the otherwise-unnamed Possum, orphans at the Deacon Smith Home for Waifs. Billy is clever and someone for whom illicit behavior isn't a choice but a compulsion. Possum is the narrator and it is through his newly opened eyes that readers see the world. Following a dubious tip from the orphanage's cook, the boys manufacture a daring escape. Their goal: a lake of gold hidden high in the mountai...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
