TY - SER
KW - farms
KW - time travel
KW - coal industry
AU - Jane Louise Curry
AB - As a Western Pennsylvania farm is miniaturized by Dr. Lilliput’s strange invention—“the reducer”—Pete MacCubbin, 12, and his grandmother struggle to keep their land and their bodies from being forever shrunken.
C1 - 1922-72
C3 - Cambria County, Johnstown
C4 - Children’s; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Mystery
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - As a Western Pennsylvania farm is miniaturized by Dr. Lilliput’s strange invention—“the reducer”—Pete MacCubbin, 12, and his grandmother struggle to keep their land and their bodies from being forever shrunken.
PB - Atheneum
PP - New York
PY - 1974
RN - Jane Louise Curry (1932— ) was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and grew up in Kittanning, Armstrong County and Johnstown, Cambria County. She studied at Penn State, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, the University of London, and Stanford. She's written over 30 books for children and teens, especially plots that feature, she says, “time slips into the past, mystery, danger, and narrow escapes.” She divides her time between London and Los Angeles.
EP - 137 p.
TI - The Lost Farm
ER -