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Publication date
  
1980

ISBN
  
0-395-27812-0

Originally published
  
1980

Genre
  
Child

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
188 pages

LC Class
  
PZ7.L9673 Au

Author
  
Lois Lowry

Publisher
  
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

OCLC
  
5946557

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Similar
  
Lois Lowry books, Children's literature

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Autumn Street is a 1980 novel by two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry.

Contents

Synopsis

There were things to be afraid of in the woods at the end of Autumn Street. But the year she went to live in her grandfather's big house - when her father went off to fight in World War II- Elizabeth couldn't put a name to those dark, shadowy fears. She was grateful for the reassurance of Tatie's strong, enveloping brown arms which held her when she needed comforting, and she relished her friendship with Tatie's grandson, feisty and streetwise Charles, who called her dumb old Elizabeth but didn't mean it, and who taught her to take risks. Together the two lonely children tried to interpret for each other an adult world -which was always puzzling and often cruel. Together, finally, on a day when snow obscured everything but terror, they left that world behind them and entered the world that was waiting in the woods.

Characters

  • Elizabeth, protagonist, befriends Charles
  • Charles, Tatie's grandson
  • Tatie, servant of Elizabeth's house
  • Grandmother, Elizabeth's stern grandma
  • Grandfather, Elizabeth's fun loving grandpa
  • Noah and Nathaniel, the twin brothers that live next door
  • Lilian Chestnut, the family's maid
  • References

    Autumn Street Wikipedia