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Catching spring  Cover Image Book Book

Catching spring

Olsen, Sylvia 1955- (author.).

Summary: "The year is 1957, and Bobby lives on the Tsartlip First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island where his family has lived for generations and generations. He loves his weekend job at the nearby marina. He loves to play marbles with his friends. And he loves being able to give half his weekly earnings to his mother to eke out the grocery money, but he longs to enter the up-coming fishing derby. With the help of his uncle and Dan from the marina his wish just might come true." -- goodreads.com

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  • ISBN: 9781551432984 (softcover)
  • ISBN: 1551432986
  • Physical Description: print
    123 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
  • Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, [2004]

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General Note:
Supporting education program.
New October 2009.
Target Audience Note:
7-11
Subject: Fishing -- Juvenile fiction
Sportsmanship -- Juvenile fiction
Determination (Personality trait) -- Juvenile fiction
Tsartlip First Nation
Fishing stories
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction

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Summary: "The year is 1957, and Bobby lives on the Tsartlip First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island where his family has lived for generations and generations. He loves his weekend job at the nearby marina. He loves to play marbles with his friends. And he loves being able to give half his weekly earnings to his mother to eke out the grocery money, but he longs to enter the up-coming fishing derby. With the help of his uncle and Dan from the marina his wish just might come true." -- goodreads.com

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