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Harpoon Island

by Pieter Van Raven · 1989

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A schoolteacher's attempt to start a new life on a sparsely populated island, where the villagers consider his withdrawn ten-year-old son to be an idiot, is further threatened when World War I breaks out and the teacher's German background is discovered.

Themes
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Setting
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Audience
childrens
Length
short · 150 pages

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