Lassie come-home
A collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Co.,
2003, c1978.
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| Summary: | A collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 248 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0805072063 9780805072068 |
| Author Notes: | Eric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home . He moved to the United States as a teenager. After graduating from Cambridge Latin School in Massachusetts, Mr. Knight married and settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where Lassie Come-Home was written and where the collie who inspired the book is buried. Mr. Knight was killed while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. |
