A Difficult Boy - Couverture souple

Barker, M. P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823422445 ISBN 13 : 9780823422449

Editeur : Holiday House, 2009

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is 1839. Nine-year-old Ethan does not want to be an indentured servant, but his family has no other way to pay off their debt, so Ethan must work for Mr. Lyman, a wealthy shopkeeper in their Massachusetts town. At first, Ethan tries to make friends with the other indentured servant, Daniel, a moody Irish teenager. But Daniel, as everyone says, is a difficult boy, and wants nothing to do with him. Ethan is shocked to see Mr. Lyman beat Daniel. Soon he too is suffering Mr. Lyman's blows. Self-preservation finally drives the two boys together and they begin to form a friendship, but when the boys discover a dark secret about the past, their lives may be changed forever. Set against the exciting backdrop of American history, this stunning first novel from a talented new voice shows what it takes to be a friend.

Biographie de l'auteur

M. P. Barker worked as a costumed historical guide in Massachusetts for nearly ten years. She received a firsthand taste of nineteenth-century New England rural life by milking cows, mucking out barns, and doing other tasks that helped her bring realism and immediacy to A Difficult Boy, her first novel. The manuscript for A Difficult Boy won the 2003 PEN New England Children's Book Caucus Discovery Award. Learn more at mpbarker.net.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Holiday House
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823422445
• ISBN 13: 9780823422449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible