Whistle in the dark
By: Susan Hill Long
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780823428397; 9780823431915
Subjects: Coming of age; Juvenile fiction; Bildungsromas; Bildungsromans; Lead mines and mining; Fiction
Description: In a small Missouri town during the 1920s, Clem is torn between family responsibility and the life he wishes to lead when he must begin working in the lead mine on his thirteenth birthday to help pay for his sister's medical care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181).

Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature, 2015.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Last Day; title: 2. The First Day; title: 3. Happy Birthday; title: 4. Pally-Boy; title: 5. The Woods; title: 6. Lindy; title: 7. Treasures; title: 8.A Cave Pearl; title: 9.A Thing of Beauty; title: 10. The Bell Tree; title: 11. The Cardinal; title: 12. Losers, Weepers; title: 13. An Accident; title: 14. Crackers; title: 15.A Dress; title: 16. Finders, Keepers; title: 17. Stories and Lies; title: 18. March 18; title: 19. After the Storm; title: 20. The School Yard; title: 21. Gluckauf; title: 22. The Evening News.