The Night Swimmers (Puffin Books) - Softcover
It's tough for 12-year-old Retta to be mother to her two younger brothers. With their real mother dead and their father busy trying to become a famous country-and-western singer, the children are left very much to their own devices. By the author of "The Summer of Swans" and "The Midnight Fox".
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Betsy Byars, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, received a degree in English from Queens College there. Currently, she lives in Clemson, SC with her husband, a college professor. They have four grown children--one son and three daughters--and five grandchildren. "My own hobbies," Byars says, "are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals. But my husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights."
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0140314091
- ISBN 13 9780140314090
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; Sixth Printing. Minor cover creases, large publisher sticker to rear. ; Sixth printing of Puffin paperback edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork by Jerry Hoare. ; 144 pages; Twelve-year-old Retta Anderson has to be mother to her two younger brothers. They are often left to their own devices as their real mother is dead and their father goes away trying to become a famous country-and-western singer. When Retta discovers the perfect secret place to swim at night their lives are changed forever. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 32991
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