Pub Date: February 28, 2000
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99055279
Lexile Code: 0950
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 7.60" L x 5.10" W ( 0.50 lbs) 304 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Classics | Fantasy | Dragons Unicorns and Mythical Creatures | Action and Adventure | Humorous Stories | Readers | Chapter Books | Survival Stories | Girls and Women | Stories in Verse see also Poetry | Books and Libraries | Boys and Men | Social Themes | Friendship | Legends Myths Fables | General | Places | United States | Poetry see also Stories in Verse
Description: A handful of Minnipins, a sober and sedate people, rise up against the Periods, the leading family of an isolated mountain valley, and are exiled to a mountain where they discover that the ancient enemies of their people are preparing to attack.
Brief description: Carol Kendall (1917-2012) was born in in Bucyrus, Ohio, and lived much of her life there. She was the author of more than half a dozen much-loved novels for young readers, including The Gammage Cup, a Newbury Honor book, and its sequel, The Whisper of Glocken.
Review Quotes:
This highly creative fantasy [has] an almost inexhaustible variety of reading pleasures: plot surprises, humor, fascinating characters, richness of ideas, and delight in words.--The Horn Book