Nicolau's prize
By: by Mary Jane Foltz ; ill. by Brinton Turkle.
Contributors: Turkle, Brinton, ill.
Edition: Weekly Reader Children's Book Club ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Whaling -- Fiction.; Portuguese Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Nicolau's prize.
Description: A young Portuguese immigrant in nineteenth century California is an outcast at school because he always smells of whale oil, until salvage from a ship wrecked at sea and a class trip to the whaling station earn him friendship and respect.
Notes: Weekly Reader Children's Book Club presents