Lassie Come-Home
Knight, Eric
Kirmse, Marguerite (ILT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
The quintessential boy and his dog story. A time-tested favorite.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Lassie is Joes prize collie and constant companion. But when Joes father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotlandtoo far a journey for any dog to make alone . . . But Lassie is not just any dog.
AUTHOR BIO
Eric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home. He moved to the United States as a teenager. After graduating from Cambridge Latin School in Massachusetts, Eric Knight married and settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where Lassie Come-Home was written and where the collie who inspired the book is buried.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312371314
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312371319
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: bl2007022437
Book Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 248
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