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_aGrant, Robert, _d1852-1940 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aJack Hall |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-10-28 | ||
| 508 | _aProduced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _aJack Hall by Robert Grant is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on the spirited schooldays of a Boston boy, Jack Hall, tracing his pranks, friendships, and formative scrapes as he inches toward greater responsibility. Expect brisk episodes of winter sport and street mischief, a tight-knit circle of boys, and the tension between boyish daring and a devoted mother’s guidance. The opening of the novel drops us into Washington’s Birthday in Boston, where thirteen-year-old Jack revels in snowballing a grocer’s clerk, hitching behind sleighs, candy-shop indulgences, and headlong coasting that ends in a spill. He and his friends wage a raucous neighborhood snowball battle against “muckers,” with Jack toppling the feared Joe Herring before a policeman disperses the fray. That evening they feast at home and pull off nocturnal pranks—chalk “letters,” a bell-string trip that humiliates a stern neighbor—while Jack candidly admits to his mother that he tried smoking rattan. By morning he has measles, the grocer arrives to protest ongoing mischief and petty pilfering, and Jack’s mother reflects on his forebears, the limits of city boyhood, and whether a country school might better shape his character. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBoston: Jordan, Marsh and Company, 1887 |
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| 653 | _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aBoys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSchools -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aBaseball -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aChildren -- Death -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aFriendship -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aBoys -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aBoarding schools -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aStudents -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSick -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSports stories | ||
| 653 | _aAwards -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aTobacco -- Juvenile fiction | ||
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_aAttwood, Francis Gilbert, _d1856-1900 |
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