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Come a Tide
By Lyon, George Ella & Gammell, Stephen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-53105-854-1
- Publisher
- New York : Orchard Books, c1990.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1990
PreS-Gr 2 In the hills, in March, it snowed and then rained four days and nights. Grandma said, "It'll come a tide." It did, washing away gardens, porches, pigs, and chickens. Four families on a hillside cope with the flood, driving to higher ground to wait it out, fetching their boat, and gathering stray family members. After the narrator's night at Grandma's, the rain stops and they all return to "make friends with a shovel." The story is lyrically told...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
