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Stepping on the cracks

In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.

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Main Author:	Hahn, Mary Downing
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2008?], c1991.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
Physical Description:	216 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Awards:	Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 1982.
ISBN:	9780547076607 (pbk.) : 0547076606
Author Notes:	Mary Downing Hahn grew up in College Park, Maryland. After graduating college, she worked as an art teacher, a college instructor, and a children's librarian in Prince George's Public Library System. She published her first novel, The Sara Summer, at the age of 41. Since then, she has been a full-time writer and averages one book a year. Her ghost story Wait till Helen Comes was the winner of 12 state children's book awards and she received the Scott O'Dell award for her World War II novel Stepping on the Cracks. She currently lives with her husband in Columbia, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography)