Jake and his younger brother Tommy are on their first camping trip. While exploring in the woods on Marsh Island, they lose their way. When the boys start to feel like they're not the only ones wandering in the woods, they begin to wonder if the story their dad told them about old Alfred Marsh and h
A Marsh Island
β Scribed by Sarah Orne Jewett
- Book ID
- 110817208
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Series
- Barnes & Noble Digital Library
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781411440470
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This charming novel, set on a southwestern Maine island amid the salt marshes, focuses on the conflict between two young suitors--one from the city and one from the country--who fall in love with the same farmer's daughter. A pleasant romance, A Marsh Island is also brimming with evocative descriptions of the landscape's rugged beauty, for which Jewett is renowned.
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