The Night Swimmers - Hardcover

Byars, Betsy Cromer

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557361770 ISBN 13: 9781557361776

Publisher: Cornerstone Books, 1990

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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.

"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.

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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..

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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