24 Hours

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Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000 - 200 pagina's
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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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Pagina 47
... he'd been thinking of home with pleasure - and yet , within a breath , the words
he was shaping in the back of his mouth twisted on his tongue , and came out
saying something that surprised him much more than they surprised anyone else
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Pagina 136
It was just the surprise . ” " There's truth in surprise , ” Leona replied . Ellis found
the clichés of masterly rapture had completely deserted him . " I was working on
an old man yesterday , ” Leona went on reflectively . “ Heart attack case . We put
 ...
Pagina 152
Mine forever ! " Then , turning his back on Phipps , he dived for the door , taking
both Phipps and the redheaded woman by surprise , and leaped out into
Moncrieff Street , running with an energy , almost a lightheartedness , that
surprised him .

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Gebruikersrecensie  - 2chances - LibraryThing

Interesting. This quite readable YA novel follows 17-yer-old Ellis over 24 hours, during which time he leaves his middle-class life to become part of a rather touching community of misfits who gather ... Volledige review lezen

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It's 5:10 on a Friday afternoon and Ellis, 17, has just come home after graduating from prep school. He's walking through the streets reacquainting himself with his hometown and dreaming about the ... Volledige review lezen

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Over de auteur (2000)

Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76.

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Titel24 Hours
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AuteurMargaret Mahy
Editiegeïllustreerd
UitgeverMargaret K. McElderry Books, 2000
Oorspronkelijk uitde University of Michigan
Gedigitaliseerd23 juni 2011
ISBN0689838840, 9780689838842
Lengte200 pagina's
  
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