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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... leaped from the pavement onto a narrow , empty strip desig- nated as a bus stop . The skater swung so dangerously close to the line of slow - moving traffic that one or two drivers tooted their horn in outrage , and a passenger lowered ...
... leaped forward , keeping pace with Ursa , while Leona turned to shout for Jackie . “ Over here ! Over here ! " she called . “ Here ! Here ! " replied multiple voices , echoing back at them in an angel chorus . Ellis , meanwhile ...
... leaped back from rusting corrugated iron , subsiding walls , perhaps even from the painted Phipps spying on them from between the buildings . Ellis rode off down Garden Lane , the sound of Fox's laughter fol- lowing him all the way ...