Betsy Cromer Byars: Keeper of the Doves
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Author: Betsy Cromer Byars
Number of Pages: 121 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Country: New York, NY, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780142400630
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Amen McBee, the youngest of five sisters, gobbles up words the way other children gobble up sweets. She couldn't be more different from her elder twin sisters Arabella and Annabella-called the Bellas. The mischievous Bellas constantly frighten Amen with stories of Mr. Tominski-the old recluse who lives in the woods nearby and mysteriously tends to a flock of doves. The Bellas insist that Mr. Tominski is a dangerous bogeyman who eats children whole, but Papa vows that the "keeper of the doves" wouldn't hurt a soul. When tragedy strikes the family Amen must decide once and for all who is right."