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When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there.Tags
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- Canonical title
- The Ornament Tree
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Bonnie Shaster; Carson Young; Aunt Suze; Audra Devereaux; Winnie Devereaux; Clare Harris (show all 11); Sally Harris; Mrs. Marshall; Malcom Partridge; Everett Nickerson; Bertram Johnson
- Important places
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Dedication
- This is for the real Clare and her sister
who told me the stories, which were always
more loving and comic than I could ever echo.
Also, this is for Mr. Younger, misplaced in time
and circumstances but ne... (show all)ver in Clare's affection. - First words
- August 1918
Dear Elena:
I haven't heard from you since I came here to live with Aunt Suze, and I'm worried. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Printed on it in crude, lop-sided letters was, "Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie."
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .T3525 .O — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- UPCs
- 1
