Children's Fiction Adolescence
Covered Bridge /hc
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1990
- Category
- Adolescence, General, Country Life
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888991225
- Publish Date
- Oct 1990
- List Price
- $18.95
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Out of print
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 7
- Reading age: 9 to 12
Description
Winner of the Governor General's Award and the Mr. Christie's Book Award
In this award-winning paean to country life we find Hubbo O'Driscoll, whom we first met in Easy Avenue, now living in the lower Gatineau with his guardian aunt and uncle. When the local covered bridge -- home to a wayward ghost and her lovelorn postman -- is threatened by development, Hubbo must devise a strategy to save it.
About the author
Brian Doyle is a four-time winner of the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award. His American honors include being selected for the Horn Book's Fanfare List, the ABA "Pick of the Lists" and the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age. He has also won the NSK Neustadt Prize, the Phoenix Honor Award, and he has been named a finalist for the Hans Christian Anderson Award. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec.
Awards
- Winner, Mr. Christie's Book Award
- Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Awards: Text
Editorial Reviews
Doyle's humour is again omnipresent.
CM Magazine
