Description
The Very Good dust jacket illustrated with girl looking at an apple, has edge rub wear, slight chipping at head of spine. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good+ condition binding is light tan cloth over boards, some light soiling and bumping along edges, edge-wear, green lettering on spine. Gift inscription on inside rear cover. Several black-and-white illustrations within. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.7″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Summer on the farm was always a happy time for the Dodge children and their cousin Philip Nugent, and this summer should have been no different except for Nora Cameron, the city girl wearing a leg brace, who came to the Nugents’ as a summer boarder. All summer long, she stayed aloof–never a part of the happy, carefree vacation days and in an outburst of bitterness just before her departure, she made the others realize that what she had missed most of all in the country was the beautiful church she attended at home. There each week the fine music and the warm meaning of the service helped her to forget her lameness for a little while. Ashamed, the children saw for the first time how shabby and down-at-heel was their small church at The Corners, to which a visiting minister came each Sunday afternoon from the nearest town.
To make silent amends to Nora, Lauric Dodge and her friends decided that autumn to clean and brighten up the Sunday School room. With the unexpected help of a resourceful and somewhat mysterious old Scotsman, the children began to get results. Before Nora and her family came for another visit, new dignity and a finer spirit enriched the church and all its members.
In the friendly setting of a Nebraska farming community, Miss Bothwell, author of Peter Holt, P.K., has created real people working together-despite misunderstandings–to achieve a richer life.
