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THE MIDDLE MOFFAT
by Estes, Eleanor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/fair +
- Seller
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San Pedro, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1942. Cloth w/paper labels on front cover and spine. Very good/fair +. Slobokin, Louis. 317p. Name on front endpaper, jacket edges have chips, tears, and creases. "Janey is the 'middle Moffat,' trying hard to be serious and to do everything well. Things do not seem to work out quite as she plans (her organ recital turns into an escape for thousands of moths), but the little girl is undeterred. She continues to make bold plans with outrageously funny results." [Newbery & Caldecott Awards, ALA, 2016 edition] Received 1943 Newbery Honors. B&w illustrations by Louis Slobokin. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")
Synopsis
Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and she isn't the oldest-she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery ... the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks. In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury...so he can live to be one hundred. Between brushing her hair from her eyes and holding up her stockings, she has to help the girls' basketball team win the championship. And it falls to Jane-the only person in town with enough courage-to stand up to the frightful mechanical wizard, Wallie Bangs. Jane is so busy keeping Cranbury in order that she barely has time to be plain old Jane. Sometimes the middle is the most exciting place of all.... Eleanor Estes's beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Champ & Mabel Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H13381
- Title
- THE MIDDLE MOFFAT
- Author
- Estes, Eleanor
- Illustrator
- Slobokin, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth w/paper labels on front cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Newbery Award Families Juvenile Fiction Family Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S BOOKS;
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About the Seller
Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Biblio member since 2007
San Pedro, California
About Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Champ & Mabel Collectibles has been selling secondhand books online since 1998.
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
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