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Item Details
Title:
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MY BROTHER'S GHOST
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By: |
Allan Ahlberg |
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Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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£5.83 |
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£2.16 |
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ISBN 10: |
0141306181 |
ISBN 13: |
9780141306186 |
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Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 February, 2001 |
Pages: |
80 |
Description: |
When Frances Foggarty was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances' story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and 'guardian angel'. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with a rather tyrannical aunt. |
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Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and 'guardian angel'. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with a rather tyrannical aunt. In this touching tale of loss, hardship and endurance Frances comes to terms with Tom's death and moves on in her life. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Puffin |
Prizes: |
Winner of Blue Peter Book Award 2001 |
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Returnable |
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Book Level : 4.5
Interest Level : Middle Yrs
Points : 1
Quiz number : 204275
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