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Physical Description:xv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm print
Publisher:Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note:
"Garnett books."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-214) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The difficult dream: the Babcocks dig a well and launch a newspaper -- An opportunity for each: Colonel Pope comes to town and helps build an industrial powerhouse -- A dream of social order: the government segregates a neighborhood -- The fullest stature: original residents are pushed out, the neighborhood gets a reputation-and everyone is baseball crazy -- To be recognized: the children of Frog Hollow find champions, and the Newsies fight back -- Each man and woman: the Reverend Pennington is free -- Growing weary and mistrustful: the neighborhood gets an orphanage -- They are innately capable: Dominick Burns opens a bank, and Maria Sañchez shepherds a political force -- Regardless of fortuitous circumstances: the ghosts that walk Frog Hollow's streets, and where they're heading.
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