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A Hundred Days from Home
By Wright, Randall
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80506-885-6
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt, 2002.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2002
Gr 6-10 Wright's vivid and laconic first novel explores the events of the summer of 1961 when 12-year-old Elam, still coming to terms with the death of his best friend the year before, later has to face the death of his father. Opposed to his family's move from the upland forests of Arizona to the raw desert, where his father works for a mining company, the boy nonetheless finds a kind of solace in the natural activity of the ar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
