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The Barn

Avi
2014 Released
112 Pages
1-2 Hours
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Scholastic PaperbacksISBN 9780545607445
This moving story historical novel from master storyteller Avi will reach the wide audience it deserves with its beautiful and compelling new cover treatment.

Ben is away at school when his father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855. With no adults to help, he and his brother and sister must take over the family farm in Oregon Territory's rugged Willamette Valley. Despite his siblings' doubts, Ben is determined to build the barn Father had planned, in the hope of waking him from his silent, frozen state. But will it be enough?

Avi

Avi is the award-winning author of more than eighty-two books for young readers, ranging from animal fantasy to gripping historical fiction, picture books to young adult novels. Crispin: The Cross of Lead won the Newbery Medal, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Nothing but the Truth were awarded Newbery Honors. He is also the author of the popular Poppy series. Avi lives in Denver, Colorado. Visit him online at avi-writer.com.

More by Avi

The Road from Nowhere
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Sophia's War
Nothing But the Truth (Scholastic Gold)
Crispin: The End of Time
Ragweed
The Cross of Lead
The Secret School
Ragweed and Poppy
Poppy and Rye
Lost in the Empire City
Prairie School

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