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By Edith Maxwell

Book Overview

Can Pearl, a pig, and her new friend, a small talking bone, outwit a band of robbers and a hungry fox? The Amazing Bone is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671428918
• ISBN13: 9780671428914
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: pocket Books
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An excellant quick read

This book was one in a stack of books I bought in a Library sale. I am a 79 year old man and didn't realize until I started the book that it is intended for teenage girls. I was surprised to find the book was superior to many adult books I've read. As a writer myself, I worried for the entire book about how there could be possibly be a satisfactory ending for the protagonist's delemma. But without any tricks or smokey mirrors, the ending is real life, reasonable, and satisfying.

Absorbing--I recommend it

I read this Edith Maxwell book in the 1980s, though the characters are clearly living in the 1970s. The plot: A prank phone call inadvertently causes the deaths of two people and orphans a teenage girl. This terrible secret is kept by four friends as one of them befriends the girl and guilt and fear erodes the friendships of the four. I think if you've read Lois Duncan's "I Know What You Did Last Summer", then you'll probably enjoy this book, too.