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Lightning in the grass -- Clearing the fog -- What a boy is worth -- Dunce goes to school -- Fences inside and out -- Done with the world -- Evil in dark truth -- Weight of guilt -- Inviting in and letting go -- Flower with slices for petals -- Cutting fences, building ties -- War and myths -- Words through the walls -- Running and blood -- Death and doorways -- Tears that bind -- Cattle and chances -- What we learn -- Fence cutting -- The hunt -- A little pride to bring us together -- The fences we build.
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 144 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0689857306
9780689857300
SUBJECTS
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.