The Boy who was Afraid
by Armstrong Sperry
78 pages· 1952· ISBN 9780435120177
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One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this novel won the Newbery Award. To conquer his fear of the sea, a young Polynesian boy sets out on a long, lonely and dangerous canoe-trip into unknown waters.
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