Wild Geese Flying by Cornelia Meigs 1957 HC/DJ

Wild Geese Flying
Cornelia Meigs
New York: Macmillan, 1957
Weekly Reader Book Club edition
Illustrated by Charles Geer
194 pages

The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but browning. The green cover is toned on the edges. The jacket is scuffed, has some edge tears and a one inch tear on the front. Good in acceptable dust-jacket. Hardcover.

All of the Milton children loved the big white house in Jefferson Village, Vermont where they had come to live, but Dick Milton especially loved the stretch of woods behind the house and the beautiful little lake where wild geese sometimes came to rest. But the strange attitude of the people of Jefferson make the Miltons feel unwelcome, and only with the help of a family lawyer do they discover why the townspeople do not accept them. Then they become involved in trying to solve the mystery that will make everything all right.

We come to know a quiet, reflective and resourceful boy of twelve - Dick Milton. Dick, in the absence of his father who is out of the country on business, is his mother's mainstay and his younger brother's chief counselor. And we get to know the rest of the Milton family, too - Mrs. Milton, Roddy, Bella and Anne - for this is a family story, full of the warm spirit of a happy family group and the pleasure they take in their home. (#000062)