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A thief in the village, and other stories / James Berry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1990, c1987.Description: 148 p. : illISBN:
  • 0140343571 (pbk.)
  • 9780140343571 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813
Contents:
Becky and the wheels-and-brake boys -- Thief in the village -- Tukku-Tukku and Samson -- All other days run into Sunday -- Mouth-organ boys -- Elias and the mongoose -- Pet, the sea, and little buddy -- Fanso and Granny-Flo -- Banana tree.
Summary: A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, on such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation. Nenna and her brother Man-Man sneak from shadow to tree trunk in the dead of night, concealing themselves while tracking a coconut thief. Gustas barely survives a violent hurricane, trying to save his fruit-laden banana tree. Becky begs her mother for a bicycle, and Fanso longs to know his father who walked out of his life thirteen years earlier.
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Cover title: A thief in the village, and other stories of Jamaica.

Becky and the wheels-and-brake boys -- Thief in the village -- Tukku-Tukku and Samson -- All other days run into Sunday -- Mouth-organ boys -- Elias and the mongoose -- Pet, the sea, and little buddy -- Fanso and Granny-Flo -- Banana tree.

A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, on such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation. Nenna and her brother Man-Man sneak from shadow to tree trunk in the dead of night, concealing themselves while tracking a coconut thief. Gustas barely survives a violent hurricane, trying to save his fruit-laden banana tree. Becky begs her mother for a bicycle, and Fanso longs to know his father who walked out of his life thirteen years earlier.

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