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020			_a9780140343571 (pbk.)
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082			_a813
100	1		_aBerry, James,
245	1	2	_aA thief in the village, and other stories / _cJames Berry.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bPuffin Books, _c1990, c1987.
300			_a148 p. : _bill. ;
500			_aCover title: A thief in the village, and other stories of Jamaica.
505	0		_aBecky 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.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aChildren's stories, Jamaican.
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