Follett Content Book Detail: The Barn by Avi

The Barn

Author: Avi

Follett Number: 0555DL9
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 2014
Format: 106 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-60744-5
ISBN-10: 0-545-60744-2
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Farm Life Fiction
Father and Child Fiction
Historical Fiction
Oregon Fiction
Sick Fiction
Ben and his sister must take over the family farm when their father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855.

From the publisher:
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?

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