Janet Post, Gabe Thompson

Broschiertes Buch

Voodoo Child

Beschreibung

Explore the mysteries of New Orleans’ French Quarter during Mardi Gras, through the eyes of three seventh graders as they search to reconnect with their parents and avoid a nasty set of bad guys. Left alone and homeless in Haiti, Jean Benoit is sent state-side by an orphanage to live with foster parents and attend Catholic school as a social outcast. His new-found friend Oscar, known as Walmart, is mocked by fellow students as an overweight under-achiever whose mother abandoned him in Wal-Mart. The boys are befriended by Bella, an American Indian, who lives with her adoptive parents. Her birth parents are dead, but they left her a legacy she soon discovers as she begins to shape-shift. Jean receives a gift from his dead father, too. It’s a magic amulet pursued by a voodoo witch named Odette, her brother Bocor, and her son, Natas. Jean has no idea how to use it. He must learn on the fly, on a wild race around New Orleans, on a train to Little Haiti, Miami and back, to the cemetery in the swamp, as the three friends try to find his mother before the black magic users get to her, or them.

Autor

The Daughter of a Colonel, Janet Post, a self-described wild child, lived the military life until she got out of high school at which time she married and moved to Canada where she lived up in the Sechelt Inlet,. This set the scene for her YA novel, Spellcast Waters. Janet lived in a log cabin 15 miles by boat from the nearest town. She's lived in 40 different locations, including Hawaii where he worked as a polo groom for fifteen years. Upon moving to Florida she worked as a reporter covering children in middle school and teenagers in high school which further ignited her interest in writing YA novels. She loves kids and horses. She now lives in Hastings, the swampland of Florida with too many dogs and her fifteen year-old granddaughter. Together with her son Gabe she wrote the YA novels Voodoo Science and My BFF is an Alien. Her book Vagrant was named a finalist in the International Book Awards contest and was a Green Apple Special Selection winner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tell-Tale Publishing Group, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781944056773
• ISBN-10: 1944056777
• Artikelnr.: 53579916