Beat the Turtle Drum
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- Synopsis
- In May Joss was saving up to rent a horse for a week, planning on using her birthday money and a lot of persuasion. Her older sister, Kate, observed it all: how they tried to build a barn in the backyard and how a storm blew it down a few minutes later; how Joss polished her riding boots every day and worried about colic; how Miss Pemberthy, the unfriendly elderly lady across the street, told Kate about her own childhood as if she were in a dream. In June, on Joss's eleventh birthday, she and Kate rode their bikes to Mr. Essig's to pay for Prince. Kate recalled smiling, buxom Mrs. Essig standing in the doorway, offering them coffee, the sunlight dazzling on her newly bleached hair. She remembered the neighborhood Kids begging for rides. She thought of Tootie, not the brightest eight-year-old on the block, giving Joss an almost heart-shaped rock for her birthday as a token of his devotion. Kate remembered climbing the tree in the backyard with Joss and looking down at Prince, munching the grass below them-- And then in a few irrevocable seconds, Kate's world changed forever. In this touching story Constance C. Greene shows us a close and loving family and the way they try to cope with unexpected tragedy, giving readers no easy answers.
- Copyright:
- 1976
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 120 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140368505
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (Canada)
- Date of Addition:
- 10/24/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Constance C. Greene
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Kathy Hester
- Proofread By:
- Lissi
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.