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Orca Books

Just the Series: Orca Young Readers

Series and Publisher: Orca Young Readers

Annotation: During the Depression, Henry Dafoe makes his way across the prairies, guided only by an old hobo and a series of secret signs.

Genre: [Historical fiction]

Reviews: 0

Catalog Number: #3308879

Format: Paperback

Special Formats: Chapter Book

Publisher: Orca Books

Edition Date: 2006 Release Date: 09/01/06

Pages: 139 pages

ISBN: 1-551-43599-3

ISBN 13: 978-1-551-43599-2

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2006928964

Dimensions: 19 cm.

Subject Heading:
Depressions. 1929. Canada. Fiction.
Tramps. Fiction.
Runaway children. Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 20,432

Reading Level: 4.9

Interest Level: 3-6

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.9 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 110020 / grade: Middle Grades

Lexile: 760L

Guided Reading Level: O

Fountas & Pinnell: O

This was not how he'd imagined today would go, but he wouldn't let anyone, not even his mother, tell him what to do. Like his hero, Tom Sawyer, Henry would seek his fame and fortune in the wide world. Maybe he couldn't hitch a ride on a Mississippi riverboat, but he could take a page out of Tom's book and live by his wits and by his own rules.

Excerpted from Secret Signs by Jacqueline Guest
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The Depression has ruined Henry Dafoe's life: his father has left the family farm to look for work, his mother is sick and now she's decided to send Henry to Nova Scotia to work on his uncle's fishboat. But Henry has other ideas. He runs away from home to join his father, which proves more difficult than he imagined. Alone and scared in a strange city, he befriends an old hobo named Clickety Clack, who agrees to take him to find his father. As they make their way across the country, Clickety Clack teaches Henry about the secret signs that hoboes use to communicate with each other.

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