Boy in the Water

Stephen Dobyns

Original title: Boy in the water

earliest edition we have, 1999 Metropolitan Books, 1999 406 pages

Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff finds far from welcome. Before Hawthorne, no one interfered with the punishment of unruly students or with the long "tradition" of permanent loans to faculty of shovels, saws, even cars...

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Boy in the Water edition · 2000 · Penguin Books Ltd · 560 pages · 9780140285208
Boy in the Water paperback · 2000 · St. Martin's Paperbacks · 448 pages · 9780312975227
Boy In the Water paperback · 1999 · Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc · 416 pages · 9780670886890
Boy In The Water audiobook · 1999 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736646659
Boy in the water edition · 1999 · Metropolitan Books · 406 pages

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