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James Berry A Thief in the Village (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Publication Name
- A Thief in the Village
- Title
- A Thief in the Village
- Subtitle
- And Other Stories of Jamaica
- ISBN-10
- 0140343571
- EAN
- 9780140343571
- ISBN
- 9780140343571
- Release Year
- 1990
- Release Date
- 01/02/1990
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 197mm
- Item Length
- 130mm
- Item Width
- 10mm
- Item Weight
- 130g
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Format
- United Kingdom-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Thief in the Village : and OTHER Stories of Jamaica
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
- Topic
- Anthologies (Multiple Authors), People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America, General, Lifestyles / Country Life, Short Stories
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A moving collection of stories from an award-winning author. Gustas is nearly killed in the hurricane, trying to save his banana tree; Nenna and her brother Man-Man patrol the coconut plantation in the dead of night, ready to catch interlopers; Becky longs for a bicycle and Fanso longs to find his father who walked out thirteen years ago. This is a wonderfully atmospheric collection of contemporary short stories that bring James Berry's Caribbean childhood vividly to life.
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Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
ISBN-10
0140343571
ISBN-13
9780140343571
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81159
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thief in the Village : and OTHER Stories of Jamaica
Format
United Kingdom-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America, General, Lifestyles / Country Life, Short Stories
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
10-Up
Grade from
Fifth Grade
Grade to
Up
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"The phrases in these stories, all set in Jamaica, are musical in print, even before they are read aloud. ''I know total-total that if I had my own bike, the Wheels-and-Brake Boys wouldn't treat me like that,'' Becky tells readers in ''Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake-Boys,'' and, with those words, her determination is established. By the end of the tale, she gets her wish and rides alongside the boys who had seemed to her fearless. ''Usually I think I live in the poorest back-o'-wall bush place,'' begins the narrator of ''All Other Days Run into Sunday,'' a boy who knows that the mischief of the other days of the week always tries to creep into Sunday's calm specialness. In the title story, an honest man is maligned in such a way that the villagers may never again be so sure of themselves. Berry's prose is liquid and cool; in ''Fanso and Granny-Flo'' and elsewhere his descriptions are so original that the language is rendered meaningful and new: ''Fanso's comings and goings and concerns were so well woven in with his granny's, it was hard to tell he had a big secret worry.'' How better to express the phase when the young adult begins to pull away from childhood? The collection is epiphanic; each story wraps itself around ordinary incidents and transforms them into lore."-- Publishers Weekly
Target Audience
Juvenile Audience
Lccn
87-024695
Intended Audience
Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Ages 2-3, under 2 Years
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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