Gee, Maurice.

The fat man / by Maurice Gee. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997. - 182 p. ; 22 cm.

Booklist Starred Reviews 12/15/1997 School Library Journal 11/1997 Publisher's Weekly 10/27/1997 Horn Book Review 01/1998

In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin Potter and his family as part of a plan to get even for the mistreatment he suffered as a schoolboy.

7-12 5.1



0689811829

96035044 /AC


Criminals--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.


New Zealand--Fiction.

PZ7.G2578 / Fat 1997

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