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The root cellar

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Main Author: Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda, 1928-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Puffin Books, 1996.
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Summary:Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.
Item Description:Publication original: New York : Scribner, 1983, c1981.
Physical Description:229 p. ;20 cm.
ISBN:0140380361
9780140380361
Author Notes:Janet Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas on December 28, 1928. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her first book, Double Spell, was published in 1968. Her other books include The Root Cellar, Come to the Fair, and Shadow in Hawthorn Bay. The Hollow Tree received the Governor General's Literary Award in 1998 and The Story of Canada written with Christopher Moore received a Mr. Christie's Book Award in 1993. She also received the Canadian Authors Association's Vicki Metcalf Award for Body of Work and The Writer's Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award in Celebration of a Writing Life. She died on June 26, 2017 at the age of 88.

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