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作者：MCNEAL, LAURA 出版社：RANDOM HOUSE CHILDRENS BOOKS 出版日期：2010年09月14日 語言：英文 ISBN：9780375949739 裝訂：精裝 內容簡介TOP 本商品為大字版 (LARGE PRINT) FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD PEARL DEWITT AND HER MOTHER LIVE 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. AND AFTER COMING ACROSS AMIEL’S MAKESHIFT HUT NEAR AGUA PRIETA CREEK, PEARL FALLS INTO A PRECARIOUS FRIENDSHIP—AND A FORBIDDEN ROMANCE. THEN THE WILDFIRES STRIKE. FALLBROOK—THE TOWN OF MARIGOLDS AND PALMS, BLOOD ORANGES AND SWEET LIMES—IS THREATENED BY THE AGUA PRIETA FIRE, AND A MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER IS ISSUED. BUT PEARL KNOWS THAT AMIEL IS IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THE FIRE, WITH NO ONE TO WARN HIM, NO WAY TO GET OUT. SLIPPING AWAY FROM SAFETY AND HER FAMILY, PEARL MOVES TOWARD THE DARK CREEK, WHERE THE SMOKE HAS BECOME AIR, THE AIR SMOKE. LAURA MCNEAL HAS CRAFTED A BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING NOVEL FULL OF PERIL, DESPERATION, AND LOVE.作者簡介 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. |
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