Description
Title: Letting Swift River Go
Author: Jane Barbara Cooney; Yolen
ISBN: 9780316968607
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 32
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher : In the middle of this century, the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts were drowned – purchased by the government and flooded in order to form the Quabbin Reservoir. “Letting Swift River Go” tells of this dramatic event through the eyes of a young girl, Sally Jane, as she watches her thriving hometown transformed into a wilderness and then submerged. Sally Jane’s story vividly recalls life and changing times in rural America: playing by the Old Stone Mill and later watching it be torn down; harvesting maple sap and seeing those same trees uprooted; walking to school along a winding balcktop road and returning many years later to float above the same road in a rowboat on the new reservoir.
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