Title: The Fossil Snake

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Title: The Fossil Snake Title Record # 1184095
Author: L. M. Boston
Date: 1975-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [juvenile]
Length: novelette
Webpages: kirkusreviews.com
Language: English

Note: Novelette length inferred from page-count presuming 150 to 350 words per page

Synopsis: "A fossil snake, embedded in one of the stones Rob's father has had delivered so he can build a wall, breaks free and grows in Rob's room, sleeping with him when it's cold and dancing obediently to the boy's recorder. ..." --Kirkus Reviews, contemporary review undated online (above)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Fossil Snake	1975-09-11	L. M. Boston	The Bodley Head	0-370-10972-4		53	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Peter Boston
The Fossil Snake	1976-03-15	L. M. Boston	Margaret K. McElderry / Atheneum	0-689-50037-8	$4.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	53	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Peter Boston

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Reviews

Review by Carol Pugner (1976) in Delap's F & SF Review, July 1976