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    612-822-4611

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Ash Road

Ash Road

Saxby, Maurice
Southall, Ivan

Paperback

Series: Text Classics

General Juvenile FictionScience & Nature

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ISBN10: 1922147494
ISBN13: 9781922147493
Publisher: Text Classics
Published: Dec 16 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.95 Depth: 7.63
Language: English

Winner of the New York Times Book Review Children's Book of the Year, 1966.

Commended title, American Library Association, 1966.

'The author has the power to get inside his characters.'--The New York Times


'Conveys with insight the reactions, fears, perplexities, ignorances and behavior of children in a real adult world.' Washington Post

'The novel is a chronicle of fire and panic, of intense and remarkable perception, and of almost inexhaustibly vivid descriptive language... unforgettable.' Wall St Journal

'The description of the fire and the atmosphere of the day are so vividly described...deservedly classic story.' ReadPlus

It's hot and dry on Ash Road, where three boys taste their first independence, camping without adults. When they accidentally light a bushfire, none could guess how far it would go. They are forced to face the consequences with only each other to depend on.

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