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Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of the 19th century is far from... read more

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  • Grandpa: The grandpa in this story was very happy and thoughtful.
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  • “You get him to Doc Fearing now, you hear.”
    Mr. Bowser

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It's things we ran away from that got us here, and now there's no place farther out to run except the wide, rolling Atlantic Ocean.

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  1. Elisa Lynn Carbone (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0375806644
Page Count: 168

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