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| When the Whippoorwill Calls | 
| Author: Candice F. Ransom
Creator: Kimberly Bulcken Root
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1403797
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0688127290
EAN: 9780688127299
ASIN: 0688127290
Publication Date: September 19, 1995
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Product Description
Hearing the first whippoorwill of summer, Polly is instructed by her grandfather to turn a somersault and make a wish, and her greatest desire is to stay in her family's Blue Ridge Mountain home.
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A Hidden Treasure July 26, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My seven-year-old daughter and I read together almost every night. In the past two years, no book (besides the Old Testament) has been her selection more than When the Whippoorwill Calls. The Blue Ridge family it depicts finds out the federal government is buying up their mountain to make way for the Blue Ridge Parkway. In the process, the seven-year-old protagonist learns a lesson of hope from the example of her father, who struggles with, but in the end adapts to, their move to the flatlands. The beauty of the story, though, is in its language. Like the mountain people she writes about, Ms. Ransom has a gift for expressing complicated sentiment in simple and concrete ways. After a number of readings, it dawned on me that I was reading good poetry. I should mention that the lllustrations are lovely and the layout of the pages is attractive and interesting.
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