Anne Turner Coppola

The Ghost of the Dunes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of Mark Carter, a fifth-grader, whose family lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Mark has an obsessive fascination with ghosts, and looks forward to his familys summer vacations on the Outerbanks of North Carolina each summer to visit his favorite relatives, his grandparents. But this year will be special because Mark will be ten years old, and will be able to spend the summer alone with his grandparents. While at his grandparents house, Mark is introduced to the areas local legend of the sightings on the high sand dunes of Jockeys Ridge, which plays an important role in young Marks fertile imagination. According to local legend, the sightings are of the poor souls who perished on the ships wrecked on the shoals off Cape Hatteras. Mark befriends an older boy, and together, they share many adventures, including a confrontation with The Ghost of the Dunes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781499049176
• Artikelnr.: 52554606

Autorenporträt

Anne Turner Coppola (September 17, 1938 - June 27, 2012) was born in Redford, New York. Her father died when she was ten, and when she was twelve, Anne was placed in a foster home after her mother was hospitalized with severe depression. She attended D'Youville Academy, a Catholic school for girls, where she wrote a weekly article for the local newspaper and was valedictorian of her graduating class. While in her first year of college, she met her future husband, an airman stationed at Plattsburgh Air Force Base. She received her teaching degree from the State University of New York at Albany and her master's degree from Rutgers University. As a teacher, Anne taught children at all levels: elementary, middle, high school, girls' yeshiva, and special needs children. After battling cancer for eight years, Anne died in 2012. Fly Away Free was one of three stories Anne wrote in 1993, but it wasn't until 2014 that her husband discovered her manuscripts while he was preparing to sell their home. Believing the stories would appeal to young readers and families of adopted and foster care children, he had them published. Fly Away Free has been Recommended by The US Review of Books, was selected as a Finalist for the 2018 Book Excellence Awards, and was featured in the January 2019 Kirkus Indie Review.