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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... shouted , the wind snatching at his words . " I've been away , " Ellis shouted back . " What ? Inside ? " Jackie asked with a sort of con- fused incredulity . " Jail ? " Then he flung up his hands in a gesture of apology . " No ! Of ...
... shouted . The room into which she led him must once have been a dining room . Tables piled on top of one another ... shouting nor 49.
... shouting some- where from the other branch . " Don't be scared ! " Ellis said awkwardly . " We only want to ask you ... shouted the boy , edging farther back along the branch . " Move on up ! " yelled a voice from below him . Ellis ...