Laura McNeal

Dark Water (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A National Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Books for Teens Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt lives in Fallbrook, California, where it's sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn't pay much attention to them...until Amiel. From the moment she sees him, Pearl is drawn to this boy who keeps to himself, fears being caught by la migra, and is mysteriously unable to talk. Then the wildfires strike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Children's Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780375897207
• Artikelnr.: 39251253

Autorenporträt

Laura Rhoton McNeal holds a master's degree in fiction writing from Syracuse University. She taught middle school and high school English before becoming a novelist and journalist. Together, Laura and her husband, Tom McNeal, are the authors of Crooked, winner of the California Book Award for Juvenile Literature and an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults; Zipped, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature; Crushed (called "compelling" by Publishers Weekly); and The Decoding of Lana Morris, a Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year. The McNeals live in Southern California with their two sons, Sam and Hank. To learn more, please visit the authors' Web site at www.mcnealbooks.com.