Seesaw Girl e-bog
51,92 DKK
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The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.Jade Blossom never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court. In seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not leave home until she marries.She is enthralled by her older brother's stories about trips to the market and to the ancestral grave sites in the mou...
E-bog
51,92 DKK
Forlag
Clarion Books
Udgivet
14 september 2009
Længde
96 sider
Genrer
1F
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780547391687
The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.Jade Blossom never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court. In seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not leave home until she marries.She is enthralled by her older brother's stories about trips to the market and to the ancestral grave sites in the mountains, about reading and painting, about his conversations with their father about business and politics and adventures only boys can have. Jade accepts her destiny, and yet she is endlessly curious about what lies beyond the walls. Will she ever see for herself?A lively story with a vividly realized historical setting, Seesaw Girl "e;will capture and hold readers"e; (Kirkus).