The Golden Hawks
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1985
- Category
- General
- Recommended Age
- 8 to 10
- Recommended Grade
- 3 to 5
- Recommended Reading age
- 8 to 10
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888621825
- Publish Date
- Jan 1985
- List Price
- $12.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888621733
- Publish Date
- Jan 1985
- List Price
- $5.95
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Description
The Golden Hawks want a clubhouse of their own. But where can they find one in their new housing development on the edge of the city?
First they try to make their clubhouse in Joe's bedroom, but their parents get angry when the kids hammer holes in the wall. Then they scare themselves silly looking for scrap wood in an emptyand spookyapartment building. Finally they try to make money so they can build a clubhouse. Will the Golden Hawks ever have a place to call their own?
First published in 1978, The Golden Hawks is an honest and touching look at life on the edge of a Canadian city. A volume in the Where We Live series.
About the authors
PAULETE JILES was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks and moved to Canada in 1969. She spent eight years as a journalist for the CBC in northern Ontario. She is the bestselling author of Enemy Women, a New York Times Notable Book, and winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Women Writing the West’s Willa Literary Award. She has also won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Paulette Jiles lives in the Texas hill country near San Antonio.
