Worth /
LaFaye, A.
Worth / - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004. - 144 p. ; 22 cm.
Lightning in the grass -- Clearing the fog -- Boy is worth -- dunce goes to school -- Fences inside and out -- Done with the world -- Evil in dark truth -- Weight of guilt -- Inviting in and letting go -- Flower with slices for petals -- Cutting fences, building ties -- War and myths -- Words through the walls -- Running and blood -- Death and doorways -- Tears that bind -- Cattle and changes -- What we learn -- Fence cutting.
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
8-12.
0689857306 (hardcover)
2003008101
Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Nebraska--History--19th century--Fiction.
PZ7.L1413 / Wo 2004
[Fic]
Worth / - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004. - 144 p. ; 22 cm.
Lightning in the grass -- Clearing the fog -- Boy is worth -- dunce goes to school -- Fences inside and out -- Done with the world -- Evil in dark truth -- Weight of guilt -- Inviting in and letting go -- Flower with slices for petals -- Cutting fences, building ties -- War and myths -- Words through the walls -- Running and blood -- Death and doorways -- Tears that bind -- Cattle and changes -- What we learn -- Fence cutting.
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
8-12.
0689857306 (hardcover)
2003008101
Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Nebraska--History--19th century--Fiction.
PZ7.L1413 / Wo 2004
[Fic]