The Gift Stone

by Robyn Harbert Eversole

Book Overview

What would it be like to live in an underground house? Surrounded by the most beautiful gems in the world? Jean knows; she lives in Coober Pedy, an underground mining town in the Australian Outback,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679886842
• ISBN13: 9780679886846
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

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This a wonderful story about a girl's life. I read this book to my students before we do a geography lesson on Australia.

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a young girl with a wish as big as the outback finds the opal which could make everything she hopes for come true....and yet, in tradtional fairy tale manner, she unselfishly gives the "gift stone" to her grandmother, rather than sell it for mere cash....and as all great acts of unselfisheness are rewarded, her dreams become reality! the wonderful use of language by the author made this a delight to read!