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Beck

Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.

Main Authors: Peet, Mal (Author), Rosoff, Meg, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Depressions > 1929 > Young adult fiction.
Orphans > Young adult fiction.
Coming of age > Young adult fiction.
Summary: Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
Physical Description: 261 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (page 266).
ISBN: 9780763678425
0763678422
Author Notes: Mal Peet was born in 1947. Before becoming a children's author, he worked as a teacher and for educational publishers. His first novel, Keeper, won the Branford Boase award and Nestle Children's Book Award. He also won the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for Tamar and the Guardian children's fiction prize in 2009 for Exposure. He co-authored a series of children's books with his wife Elspeth Graham. His first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy, was published in 2014. He died from cancer on March 2, 2015 at the age of 67.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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