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A perfect gentle knight

Pearson, Kit 1947- (Author).

Summary: It is 1957 and the six children in the Bell family are struggling to cope after their mother's death. Because their father has retreated into his books and his teaching, the older children try to run the family. The eldest, Sebastian, has begun the game of Knights of the Round Table, which at first they all find a comforting escape. But the safety of the game is threatened when Roz, the second eldest, begins to be more interested in junior high school than pretending.

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  • ISBN: 9780143186311 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0143186310 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (204 p.)
  • Publisher: Toronto : Puffin Canada, 2011.

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Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Requires Adobe Digital Editons (file size: 409 KB).
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Parents -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
Imagination -- Juvenile fiction
Maturation (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
Families -- Juvenile fiction
Nineteen fifties -- Juvenile fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
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Summary: It is 1957 and the six children in the Bell family are struggling to cope after their mother's death. Because their father has retreated into his books and his teaching, the older children try to run the family. The eldest, Sebastian, has begun the game of Knights of the Round Table, which at first they all find a comforting escape. But the safety of the game is threatened when Roz, the second eldest, begins to be more interested in junior high school than pretending.

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