Worth
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2004]
Format: Book
Description: 144 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 770L
ISBN:
0689857306 (hardcover)