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by Alan Cumyn

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Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Owen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything (just about) his older brother, Andy, says, while trying to stay one step ahead of little brother Leonard, who has now started school and is becoming smart at an alarming pace. The Skye brothers live in a small rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, an eccentric and painfully shy bachelor who sleeps on a cot in the basement, takes out his teeth at night and embodies Owen's worst fears about becoming a grownup.

On his way home from hockey practice one evening, Owen catches a glimpse of a girl named Sylvia at her piano lesson, and he falls hopelessly in love. Thank goodness for life at home, where there are brothers to talk to and plot adventures with. Yet the Skye boys somehow have a knack for turning every innocent plan into a full-scale ordeal.

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THERE was a brass jar on the mantle above the fireplace in the old falling-down farmhouse where Owen Skye lived with his family years ago.

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  • Title The Secret Life of Owen Skye
  • Author Alan Cumyn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Groundwood Books
  • Publication date 2008-05-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780888998675 / 0888998678
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.75 x 4.73 x 0.41 in (19.69 x 12.01 x 1.04 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 11 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 6
  • Reading level 880
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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