On 27 March 2002, Chris Routledge wrote:
: The Spillane children's book was _The Day the Sea Rolled
Back_ (1979), and
: it won the Junior Guild Literary Award in (I think) that
year. I haven't
: read it so can't comment on its toughness or
otherwise.
Aha, thanks. That led me to his other YA novel, THE SHIP THAT
NEVER WAS
(1982). A library web site has this summary of the first one:
"A man and his 12-year-old son lose all hope of finding a
sunken treasure in the Caribbean. Then one day a strange
thing happens to the sea."
Bill
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