When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery, ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she meets a friend who suggests making a miniature village in the sand.
- ISBN10 0606045724
- ISBN13 9780606045728
- Publish Date 1 January 1988 (first published 1 January 1949)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Turtleback Books
- Edition Turtleback School & Library ed.
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 147
- Language English