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Owen has spent his last ten summers on a remote seaside cottage with his family, and he is determined that it must be preserved. Faced with a bulldozer poised to demolish the property and a developer’s modern hotel plans, Owen’s resolve is tested as summer winds down, his family heads for the last ferry, and the new school year looms. With no one to listen and only his own conviction, the fourteen‑year‑old takes on the challenge of saving the place that others have labeled ugly.
First publish date: June 1981
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Avi
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