Frieda Wishinsky

Avis Dolphin

Illustrator: Dawson, Willow

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Avis Dolphin doesn't want to leave Canada and sail to England on the Lusitania. War is raging in Europe, and the Germans threaten to sink the ship. Avis is lonely and afraid until she meets a kindly professor whose stories of a magical island help her face an uncertain future. When the Lusitania is attacked, Avis must draw on all her newfound strength to cope with the confusion, terror and despair. How can she survive the sudden devastation of the ship? Will the people she cares about, especially the professor, live through the horror and danger?"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Groundwood Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781554984893
• ISBN-10: 1554984890
• Artikelnr.: 41397548

Autorenporträt

FRIEDA WISHINSKY is the award-winning author of more than eighty books ¿ including picture books, novels and nonfiction ¿ which have been translated into many languages. Each One Special, illustrated by Werner Zimmerman, was nominated for a Governor General¿s Literary Award, and Please, Louise! illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay, won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. More recently, Frieda has written the novel A Flower is a Friend, illustrated by Karen Patkau, and How to Become an Accidental Entrepreneur with Elizabeth MacLeod. Frieda grew up in Manhattan and has always loved crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. She now lives in Toronto, Ontario.