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On My Honor
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On My Honor Hardback - 1986

by Marion Dane Bauer; Marion Dane Bauer

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The Newbery Honor-winning coming-of-age story of a young boy's devastating guilt over the death of his best friend after a swimming challenge goes terribly wrong.

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Joel's best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt.

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Joel's best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt.

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  • Title On My Honor
  • Author Marion Dane Bauer; Marion Dane Bauer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, New York
  • Publication date 1986-09-22
  • ISBN 9780899194394 / 0899194397
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 5.66 x 0.48 in (22.56 x 14.38 x 1.22 cm)
  • Age range 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 750
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Friendship
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86002679
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"A powerful, soul-stirring novel told simply and well." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review
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Clarion Books, September 1986. Hardcover. Good/Good. This is a former high school library book. It has the associated wear and markings of such, however the book is otherwise clean and a solid reading copy.
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New York: Clarion Books/Ticknor & Fields. Clarion Books, Cover art by Field Publications, Cover Illustration by Dick Smolinski. Book Condition: Good. Color illustrated boards. Green spine with white letters. Light corner wear on tips. Olive green endsheets with weekly reader print design. 90 clean, bright tightly bound pages. Pages lightly tanned on edges. No writing, no marks, a nice clean copy. . Good. Hardcover. 1986.
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Clarion, 1986. Fine. Bauer, Marion Dane. On My Honor. NP: Clarion, 1986. 90pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with a small school sticker on the front free end paper; otherwise in Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine with very light rubbing. A Newbery Honor Winner.
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