24 HoursMargaret K. McElderry Books, 2000 - 200 pagina's It is seventeen-year-old Ellis's first night at home after graduating from prep school. By chance he bumps into Jackie Cattle, whom he remembers from grade school. Jackie is a couple of years older than Ellis, a drifter, disreputable, yet with an odd charm and a disarming wit. For the next twenty-four hours, Ellis enters an extraordinary world on the fringe of society that he never knew existed. Jackie introduces him to life at the Land-of-Smiles, a dilapidated motel where nightly a strange collection of local characters gather to drink and talk. Two attractive sisters, Ursa and Leona, the elder studying to be a lawyer, live there. Leona loves and takes care of a baby whose mother stops in only once in a while. Then the baby disappears, and Ellis is thrust into a wild, sometimes almost violent search for the child. This is a stunning novel that grips the reader as it sweeps to its conclusion. Rich characterization, breathtaking action, and an ultimately heartwarming solution distinguish this latest triumph of Margaret Mahy. |
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... driving out of the path of the storm . The road ahead was suddenly dry . Hedges and trees that had been writhing on ... drive on past , and ... " Big white gates ! " announced Jackie , leaning forward . Oh , no ! Ellis sighed to himself ...
... drive toward the house . Quite unprepared for what was about to happen to him , he was overwhelmed by a vision . Passing through the moving patches of light that shifted uneasily in the curving drive was a girl he knew he was seeing for ...
... drive ? " Ellis shouted back . Jackie was momentarily silenced . " Then , shut up ! " Ellis cried . He suddenly realized they had reached the point where the city took to the hills , cutting into them and rising in a series of uneven ...