The night swimmers - Hardcover

Byars, Betsy Cromer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0440062616 ISBN 13: 9780440062615

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1980

Synopsis

With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers but somehow things just don't seem to be working right.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Retta, Johnny and Roy are the night swimmers: three children whose father leaves them alone while he performs as a singer.

"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.

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0440062616
• ISBN 13: 9780440062615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 131