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Trouble River

Betsy Cromer Byars

1972106 pagesabout 2 hours
1972
first published
  • 1969Viking Press · 158 pages · ENGISBN 9780670732586
  • 1989Puffin Books · 158 pages · ENGISBN 9780140342437
  • 1982Scholastic · ENGISBN 9780590337083
  • 1982Scholastic · ENGISBN 9780590321358
  • 1999Peter Smith Publisher Inc · ENGISBN 9780844670249
  • 1997Macmillan Children's Books · 128 pagesISBN 9780330338554
  • 1980Avon Books · ENGISBN 9780380003457
  • 1999Tandem Library · 106 pages · ENGISBN 9780881032413

When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.

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