Grease Town by Towell, Ann

Grease Town (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780887769832)

Vendor: Ann Towell
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Grease Town by Towell, Ann

Grease Town

$17.95
Grease Town by Towell, Ann

Grease Town

$17.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan decides to run away to join his Uncle Amos and older brother, Lem, he finds an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the 19th century.

The Enniskillen swamp is slick with oil, and it takes enterprising folk to plumb its depths. The adventurers who work there are a tough lot of individuals. In this hard world, Titus becomes friends with a young black boy, the child of slaves who came to Canada on the Underground Railroad. When tragedy strikes in the form of a race riot, Titus's loyalties are tested as he struggles to deal with the terrible fallout.

Though the characters are fictitious, the novel is based on a race riot that occurred in Oil Springs, Ontario, on March 20, 1863. Grease Town is historical fiction at its finest.

Author: Ann Towell
ISBN-10: 0887769837
ISBN-13: 9780887769832
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2010
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136353 / Grease Town

Award: Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 04/01/2010 pg. 41
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2010
Booklist 04/15/2010 pg. 57
School Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 115
Multicultural Review 12/01/2010 pg. 77
By Ann Towell
By Ann Towell
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ANN TOWELL was born in Chatham, Ontario, and grew up in Wallaceburg. She was co-finalist, with her husband, world-renowned photographer Larry Towell, for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Award for work on the Mennonites, a segment that appeared in the 1994 summer edition of Descant magazine. Her first children's novel The Hollow Locust Trees was published by Black Moss Press in 1998. She has four children: Moses, Naomi, Noah, and Isaac and a granddaughter, River Annabelle. She lives near Shetland, Ontario, on a 75-acre farm.

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