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Keywords

assertiveness, author's note, bedtime, cabin, careers, conflict resolution, counting, dancing, decision making, diseases, exercise, family, food, forest, french, friendship, language, money, numbers, nutrition, religion, seasons, shadows, skiing, snow, train, transportation, travel, verbal communication, weather, woods

Title

Marven of the great north woods

Description

A boy named Marvin leaves his family during the flu epidemic. He goes to a lumberjack camp in northern Minnesota and works and learns French while making some interesting friends. Marvin learns to ski, dance, and do the bookkeeping as a lumberjack.

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Publisher

Harcourt Brace and Company

ISBN

0-15-200104-2

City of Publication

Singapore

Year of Publication

1997

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Janie Earle, 1998

Citation

Lasky, Kathryn, “Marven of the great north woods,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed April 24, 2019, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/13618.