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Goodbye, Billy Radish

In 1917, as the United States enters World War I, ten-year-old Hank sees change all around him in his western Pennsylvania steel mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him.

Main Author: Skurzynski, Gloria.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : Bradbury Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Juvenile fiction.
Mills and mill-work > Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: In 1917, as the United States enters World War I, ten-year-old Hank sees change all around him in his western Pennsylvania steel mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him.
Physical Description: 138 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0027829219 :
Author Notes: Author Gloria Skurzynski was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania in 1930. She was educated at Carlow University. She writes both fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults.She is the author of more than sixty books for young readers. In 1992, her work Almost the Real Thing: Simulation in Your High-Tech World won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. She writes the National Geographic National Parks series and the Virtual War Chronologs series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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