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100 1 _aJenkinson, Maysel
245 1 0 _aBeyond the hills
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-03
508 _aAl Haines
520 _a"Beyond the hills" by Maysel Jenkinson is a children's adventure novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows three siblings—Billy, Nancy, and Mavis—who, inspired by tales of Sir Walter Raleigh and Robert Louis Stevenson, slip away with their donkey Modestine to discover what lies beyond the river-hills. On the road they gain a new companion, the lonely Montague, and meet sympathetic adults, promising gentle, character-led adventures rather than high peril. The opening of the novel shows the children gazing across the Gleam toward the tantalizing hills, deciding to seek “the Unknown” with their rechristened donkey, Modestine. They depart at dawn, narrowly evade discovery by stern Great-Aunt Hewlett (who plies them with hot batch cakes), and breakfast while trespassing in a meadow, where a young landowner, Dick Frampton, indulges their enthusiasm by presiding over a playful “libation” to the God of Adventure; meanwhile, their worried parents search by car but miss them. The trio then meets Montague Francis de Vere, an unhappy boy chafing under a strict great-aunt, who eagerly joins after a hasty clean-up; with the help of a friendly ferryman’s son they cross the river, pass through a scattered village, cross the canal, and climb higher, pausing for a picnic and nap. Tired but elated, they head toward a nearby Priory to ask for lodging, where a genial, attentive man comes to the gate as the scene ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1926
653 _aOrphans -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFriendship -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSiblings -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aRunaway children -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aDonkeys -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aKinship care -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76628
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