Listen - McGlothlin, Kristin
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Thirteen-year-old Gwilym Duckworthy has a good family and close friends. He¿s learning to play the trumpet and has a job delivering produce. His life is good. Listen opens on Thanksgiving¿Gwilym¿s favorite holiday. It¿s a day he can spend with his family and friends playing their annual football game and scavenger hunt. What could go wrong? Maybe a call from his mom¿the one family member who left them when he was three years old? She is coming to town with her jazz band for a gig at the university. Why has she decided to contact only him? Should Gwilym meet with her without his sister and…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Thirteen-year-old Gwilym Duckworthy has a good family and close friends. He¿s learning to play the trumpet and has a job delivering produce. His life is good. Listen opens on Thanksgiving¿Gwilym¿s favorite holiday. It¿s a day he can spend with his family and friends playing their annual football game and scavenger hunt. What could go wrong? Maybe a call from his mom¿the one family member who left them when he was three years old? She is coming to town with her jazz band for a gig at the university. Why has she decided to contact only him? Should Gwilym meet with her without his sister and brother? Does he want to know why she left them? This second book in the Sourland Mountain series delves into the issue of abandonment and how through forgiveness and acceptance the characters find out they are more alike than they think.
Autorenporträt
Before becoming an award-winning author, Kristin McGlothlin was the assistant curator of education at the Norton Museum of Art, where she designed and managed the Norton¿s art and music programs. She has a BA in Art History and a BA and MA in English. Her Master¿s thesis was on the author/illustrator Edward Gorey. McGlothlin wrote and created the artwork for the children¿s picture book Andy¿s Snowball Story, about the contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy. Her poem ¿California T-shirt¿ was published in the literary magazine Coastlines, and ¿Roman Ruins in a Modern City¿ won a haiku contest and was read on Travel with Rick Steves. McGlothlin¿s short story ¿The Red Door¿ was one of twenty-three finalists among more than four hundred entries in the Florida Weekly 2018 Writing Challenge. Her debut middle-grade novel, Drawing with Whitman, won the 2019 Moonbeam Silver Medal for Pre-Teen Fiction. It is the first book in the four-book Sourland Mountain Series. A writer since she was thirteen, only now, like a million years later, has she settled upon it as her career.