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Young Adult Fiction Friendship

Up to Low

by (author) Brian Doyle

Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Initial publish date
Oct 2004
Category
Friendship, Canada, General
Recommended Age
11 to 13
Recommended Grade
6 to 8
Recommended Reading age
11 to 13
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888996220
    Publish Date
    Oct 2004
    List Price
    $11.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554980499
    Publish Date
    Oct 1989
    List Price
    $7.95

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Description

Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award

Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters, including Crazy Mickey, Frank and the Hummer.

Award-winning author Brian Doyle spent the summers of his boyhood in the Gatineau Hills, the setting for Up to Low.

About the author

Brian Doyle is a four-time winner of the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award. His American honors include being selected for the Horn Book's Fanfare List, the ABA "Pick of the Lists" and the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age. He has also won the NSK Neustadt Prize, the Phoenix Honor Award, and he has been named a finalist for the Hans Christian Anderson Award. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec.

Brian Doyle's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Child Magazine Best Book Award

Editorial Reviews

An affecting love story told with surprising gruff tenderness and pungent detail.

Michele Landsberg

These are special stories from an enormously talented, unassuming man, who is really a kid at heart.

Ottawa Citizen

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