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The friends / Kazumi Yumoto ; translated by Cathy Hirano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yumoto, Kazumi.
- Standardized Title:
- Natsu no niwa. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Old age--Juvenile fiction.
- Old age.
- Death--Juvenile fiction.
- Death.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Old age--Fiction.
- Death--Fiction.
- Japan--Juvenile fiction.
- Japan.
- Japan--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Mildred L. Batchelder book award: Winner -- 1997.
- American Library Association Notable Children's Book award -- 1997.
- Juvenile works.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 169 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
- Summary:
- Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Japan under the title: Natsu no niwa by Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992"--Title page verso.
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award for most outstanding children's book in translation, 1997.
- Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 1997
- ALA Notable Children's Book, 1997.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0374324603
- 9780374324605
- 9780374424619
- 0374424616
- OCLC:
- 34358008
- Publisher Number:
- 99990724859
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