A candle in the mist : a story for girls
- Date:
- 1931.
- Author:
- Means, Florence Crannell, 1891-1980, author.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH M483 C3 LOCAL
- Language:
- Text in English.
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Company ;
- Abstract:
- A fourteen-year-old girl, living in Minnesota in 1871, feels her life lacks excitement until the disappearance of $4000 entrusted to her father precipitates a series of events affecting the entire family.
- Physical Description:
- 5 preliminary leaves, 252, [1] pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (black- & -white), frontispiece, plates ; 21 cm
- Notes:
- Bound in salmon pictorial cloth over boards. Spine title stamped in black over gold above a salmon and black portrait of a Native American. Upper cover title stamped in black at head above pictorial design in salmon, black, and gold depicting two young girls watching two Native Americans pass on horseback.
- Curator Notes:
- Houghton Mifflin (Boston and New York), c 1931; rebound
- Subjects:
- Teenage girls Juvenile fiction, Faith Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life Minnesota 19th century Juvenile fiction, Colonists Minnesota 19th century Juvenile fiction, Money Juvenile fiction, Lost articles Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, American Women authors 20th century, Illustrated children's books Massachusetts 20th century Specimens, Frontier and pioneer life Fiction, Teenage girls, Money, Manners and customs, Lost articles, Illustrated children's books, Colonists, Faith, and Frontier and pioneer life
- Genres/Forms:
- Specimens, Novels, Illustrated works, Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Historical fiction. lcgft, Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft, Novels. lcgft, Illustrated works. lcgft, and Juvenile literature Massachusetts Boston 1931. rbgenr
- Chronological Terms:
- 1800-1999 fast
- Geographic Terms:
- Minnesota Juvenile fiction, Minnesota Social life and customs 19th century Juvenile fiction, Minnesota, and Massachusetts
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