Familiar and Haunting e-bog
44,78 DKK
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FamiliarHere are stories of everyday life, as familiar as a piece of rope and... as haunting as fear: Mike knows that he can't swing over the river on the knotted rope, but with everyone watching him, he has to try. ... as haunting as a stranger: Who is the frightened-looking girl stealing plums from Nicky's grandparents' precious tree?... as haunting as cruelty: How can Joe escape from his mea...
E-bog
44,78 DKK
Forlag
Greenwillow Books
Udgivet
2 november 2010
Længde
400 sider
Genrer
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062044327
FamiliarHere are stories of everyday life, as familiar as a piece of rope and... as haunting as fear: Mike knows that he can't swing over the river on the knotted rope, but with everyone watching him, he has to try. ... as haunting as a stranger: Who is the frightened-looking girl stealing plums from Nicky's grandparents' precious tree?... as haunting as cruelty: How can Joe escape from his mean cousin Dicky during a family reunion?HauntingAnd here are stories with a supernatural twist, as haunting as the eerie whistling from the hill above Burnt House in the middle of the night and... as familiar as guilt: A boy forgets the mysterious bottle his cousin loaned him, but when he sneaks out at night to retrieve it, the shadowy whistlers close in on him.... as familiar as loneliness: A ghost who's unbearably lonesome makes his neighbors suffer until a girl with a sense of the absurd shows him how things could be different.... as familiar as love: The ghost of a boy comes back to save his father from dying in a ferocious storm.Peopled with vivid, unforgettable characters, this collection of thirty-seven stories is by turns mysterious, humorous, strange, and sad, but it is always familiar, always haunting, and always surprising.