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On Mountaintop Rock
John McLay
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Itīs 1954 in the small town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies. Bears roam the streets tipping garbage cans, and deer eat from flowerbeds. When Jenny and Edward meet a crusty, yet endearing man named Fraser McKillop, their lives become entwined with the romance of the fur trade and the stories of Sherlock Holmes. They set out on a quest to solve a true mountain mystery. This novel will appeal to both adults and teens, and begins with a chance encounter between a retired schoolteacher and a young man in Old Quebec City. They discover they have met before, long, long ago. The young man begins to think back to that summer and so begins with this beautifully written novel: "But today on this high plateau, when the sky is blue and the air is scented with pine, at this spot where giant fingers can walk right up, step-by-step, to the sky, maybe these mountains really are the great folded wings of the Earth, and maybe we can go back to that last Saturday of the summer. So, on this perfect morning, I let the great folded wings unfurl, and fly back to when I was a boy."
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Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0-9688467-0-X
2000, Cobblestone Creek
Binding: Softcover
Length: 190
Status: Available |
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