Autographed by the author on the title page beneath her name. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984. ; 8vo.; 232 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 14689

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Title: KATE OF STILL WATERS. (AUTOGRAPHED)

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., New York

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis:

Kate Chidden discovers the importance of determination, courage, and perseverance when disaster threatens her family's Kentucky farm and the tensions and strain threaten to tear the family apart

From School Library Journal:

Grade 7-10-- The atmosphere and pattern of farm life in the bluegrass region of Kentucky are strongly conveyed through this first-person narrative. Kate Chidden, 13, eagerly learns from her parents all she can about managing the family's sheep and cattle farm, because someday it will belong to her and her younger sister. A progressively severe drought threatens ruin to the farmers, and thus to the rest of the community. Marauding wild dogs, a tornado, and other misfortunes each add to fears of foreclosure by the bank. The family of Kate's best friend is forced to put up for auction their beautiful horse farm and ancestral home, but by belt-tightening and extra jobs, Kate's family manages to pull through the critical year. In the process Kate learns about determination and hardhearted decision making and, more importantly, about people. This book may have trouble finding an audience, as Kate is younger than the book's reading level indicates. Also, at times she expresses herself too cleverly for believability, and sometimes too awkwardly for smooth reading, but she does succeed in voicing her profound love of family and farm. Her descriptions of animal husbandry, from birth through bloat to death, are unflinching. Here is a sense of contemporary farm life, its difficulties and rewards, that is uncommon for current children's literature. --Katharine Bruner, Brown Middle School, Harrison, TN
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Established in 1984, Black Swan Books is housed in building constructed in 1912. Our 3,000 square feet of floor space is filled with well organized shelves devoted to Kentuckiana, Horses, Military History, Literature, Poetry,Art, Americana, European and British History and Children's books etc. Our books are selected for condition as well as content. Many of our titles reflect the fact that we are located only a couple of blocks from the University of Kentucky. Our shop is pictured in Southern Writers, has been written up on the New York Times blog. and was used in a program produced for National Public Television. We have hosted readings as well as book signings of many regional authors, including Wendell Berry (of whom we have a large inventory)& Bobbie Ann Mason. E-mail us to be placed on our mailing list.

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