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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... took a step back , ready to make for the second door and run off , if necessary . But nobody else seemed to be paying much attention . The voices began to subside , and the music took over once more . Kitchen conversations began again ...
... took off almost at once , and by now Shelley counts as ours . Leona's crazy about her . We all are . " " Get the cops , " begged Fox . " Tell them to creep over the back fence and- " " Cops don't creep , " said Jackie . " They charge ...
... took a breath and smelled that faint scent , in which once again he thought he could distinguish the sting of antiseptic . But this time he laughed . After all , he really was the hero , not just the boy being kissed by the beautiful ...