The Fragile Flag (Hall Family Chronicles (Numbered))
Series: Hall Family Chronicles (5)
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780064403115
Subjects: Nuclear disarmament; Social Issues - Values; General; Children: Grades 4-6; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic; People & Places - United States; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic; Arms control; Disarmament; Fiction
First sentence: TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO, when my wife, Margaret, and I first moved up to the country from New York City and bought an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Pleasant Valley, New York, not far from Pough-keepsie, we didn't give much thought to our new neighbors, who were mostly hardworking dairy farmers of seventeenth-century Dutch or English stock and, while not exactly unfriendly, were reluctant to enter into conversation with people who didn't raise Holsteins and weren't interested in the price of milk.