Young Adult Fiction Friendship
Up to Low
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2004
- Category
- Friendship, Canada, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888996220
- Publish Date
- Oct 2004
- List Price
- $11.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554980499
- Publish Date
- Oct 1989
- List Price
- $7.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 11 to 13
- Grade: 6 to 8
- Reading age: 11 to 13
Description
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award
Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters, including Crazy Mickey, Frank and the Hummer.
Award-winning author Brian Doyle spent the summers of his boyhood in the Gatineau Hills, the setting for Up to Low.
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, Child Magazine Best Book Award
Editorial Reviews
An affecting love story told with surprising gruff tenderness and pungent detail.
Michele Landsberg
These are special stories from an enormously talented, unassuming man, who is really a kid at heart.
Ottawa Citizen
