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001			ASIN0689822227
005			20110622090614.0
008			110622s2000 xxu eng d
020			_a0689822227 (hardcover) _c$16.00
020			_a9780689822223 (hardcover)
050			_aPZ 7 _b.R66 2000
100	1		_aRoop, Connie. _911666
245	1	0	_aGood-bye for today : _bthe diary of a young girl at sea / _cConnie Roop, Peter Roop, Thomas Allen.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_a[NY] : _bAtheneum, _c2000.
300			_a42 p. : _bcol. ill. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aLaura doesn't want to keep a journal, but her mother says she must. After all, writing about the day-to-day life aboard her father's ship, the Monticello, will preserve her memories of a most interesting and at times terrifying, experience. The Monticello is a whaling ship, and Laura's father has decided to bring Laura, her mother, and her little brother, William, along on this voyage, for as soon as they fill the ship's hold with whale oil in the Arctic they shall return to their home in New Bedford -- a home that Laura, who was born in the Sandwich Islands, has never seen. But the long trip to the Arctic is a perilous one indeed. There are terrible storms, increasing cold, the thrill (and pity) of the whale hunt, the loss of crew members, and most of all the threat of ice, which can surround a ship and squeeze it into splinters. Based on real journals from children who lived aboard nineteenth-century whaling ships, Peter and Connie Roop's story introduces young readers to one plucky girl and her family's unusual but fascinating lifestyle.
521	0		_aAges 9-12.
700	1		_aRoop, Peter. _911667
700	1		_aAllen, Thomas. _911668
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689822227/chopaconline-20
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952			_pC2011-0320 _40 _00 _bMAIN _10 _oPZ 7 .R66 2000 _d2011-06-22 _70 _cChildren Collection _2lcc _yBOOK _aMAIN