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The Wheel on the School
Author: Meindert DeJong

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Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2

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ISBN-13: 9780064400213 - ISBN-10: 0064400212
Publication Date: 4/5/1972
Pages: 320
Reading Level: Ages 9-12

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Book Description:

Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to come true.

Winner, 1955 Newbery Medal
Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA)
1963 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

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Pat K. wrote on 5/14/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I was a child a long time ago, my Mom and Dad took turns reading chapters of it to me and my sister. We enjoyed the story, the characters, and the "foreign vaation" to the Netherlands we experienced by "spending time" in the little village where the story is set.

And then I read it again, as an adult. Times changes, we change, but the book hasn't changed. Now the sex roles are stiff and artificial, the prejudiced comments seem to be tossed off as if there's nothing to them outside the ordinary. But it's no longer ordinary to laugh at someone who wants to live up to her potential. I cherish my memory of the first read, but I wouldn't hand it to today's children.

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