The Night Swimmers - Softcover
With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers
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Retta, Johnny and Roy are the night swimmers: three children whose father leaves them alone while he performs as a singer.
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"Byars has the uncanny ability to know the secret lives...the outward postures, and the exact words her characters would surely use."--The New York Times Book Review.
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, An American Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
Retta, Johnny and Roy are the night swimmers: three children whose father leaves them alone while he performs as a singer..
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, An American Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, An American Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
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- PublisherPuffin / Penguin Books
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0140314091
- ISBN 13 9780140314090
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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