| Tyler Contributor(s): Burch, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820311944 ISBN-13: 9780820311944 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1990 Annotation: Chronicles one year in the lives of three brothers growing up on a farm during the depression. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Country Life - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89028245 |
| Series: Brown Thrasher Books |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.78" W x 8.85" (0.70 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is it like to grow up during the Depression on a small Georgia farm, where there is no electricity and the nearest paved road is miles away? For Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee, the Coley boys, it means they do morning chores when most kids in town are still asleep, and they get practical things for Christmas, such as overalls, instead of toys. But country kids like Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee have their share of fun. Whether playing kick-the-can and handy-over, raising a prize calf, or visiting a neighbor for an evening of singing and blackbottom pie, they are never short of ways to amuse themselves. And they know work is easier when it's turned into a game. Robert Burch's novel of one year in the lives of these brothers who are also best friends is rich in details of a way of life that is still followed in many areas of the rural South. From their speech and dress to the ways they spend their days and nights to the matters close to their hearts, Burch's characters are genuine in every way. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burch, Robert: - ROBERT BURCH has been praised by Atlanta Weekly magazine as "the author of some of the finest, most satisfying books for young people to be written in the South in this century." Author of nineteen books for children, Burch is a three-time winner of the Georgia Children's Book Award, an honor bestowed by the schoolchildren of the state. His story Queenie Peavy is a winner of the Children's Literature Association's Phoenix Award. He is a native of Fayette County, Georgia. |