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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... turned in at that gate many times before , was really finding its own way . Every cell in his body seemed intent on turning and going back to town again . But there , in front of him , set in orchards and wide lawns , sprawled the house ...
... turned , smiling and gesturing at Ellis . " Come on , " she shouted . The room into which she led him must once have been a dining room . Tables piled on top of one another took up almost a quarter of it . But three tables , at least ...
... turning zone beside the lookout point , making way for this monstrous , and probably illegal , vehicle to lumber by ... turned into the parking zone , and drew to a sliding stop , remembering to park in the exit so that even if Winston ...