By the river
By: Steven Herrick.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Front Street; Highlights Press, c/o Highlights for Children, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Asheville, N.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Brothers -- Fiction.; Single-parent families -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Death -- Fiction.; Australia -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.