Far From Home - Couverture souple

Thompson, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 098880803X ISBN 13 : 9780988808034

Editeur : Jessie Street Press, 2017

Synopsis

The year is 1809. Daisie Moon, a doll who can walk, talk, and think for herself, travels to a farm in Massachusetts to live with twelve-year-old Annie O and the Smith Family. What Daisie doesn’t know is that Annie O‘s father plans to send his daughter off to work at a far-away cotton mill. The family needs the money, so Annie O sets out to work with Daisie in her bag. Annie O works long hours at the mill. The Overseer is mean and the work hours are long. Annie O tries to make friends with the girls who work in the Spinning Room. Mostly they run off and ignore her. Her only friend, besides Daisie, is a dog she names Baby. When Annie O meets famous Dolley Madison, everything changes! Annie O becomes so popular that the girls start a fan club in Annie O’s name.At first, Daisie is lonely at the mill so she wanders the halls while Annie O is working. What she doesn’t know is that Fern, the strange girl from the forest, plans to steal her from Annie O. Annie O would like to run away from the awful mill but there are many complications. Certainly she would never leave without Daisie! This is the second book in the Daisie Moon Adventure Book series.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Thompson had been a commercial and fine art photographer with a studio in S.O.M.A., South of Market, in San Francisco for years. Perhaps it was the visual training and her love of reading fiction that got her started imagining what scenes might look like in a book. Although still a devotee of Adobe Photoshop, she now spends most of her time putting the scenes, which she imagines in her stories, into words. American history or “how it used to be” fascinates her. The distant past in many ways is unimaginable because none of us were there. Wanting to know how laundry was done, or what was served for dinner over 100 years ago has encouraged her to do research and reading on the subject to find out more. The facts set certain details and then she “imagines” the rest, which to her is the fun of writing fiction. Barbara believes that “seeing” her character step into a world of long-ago that she has created is the best part. Then, adding a bit of “magic” to that character’s life brings the story alive. Far From Home is her second published novel in the Daisie Moon Adventure series for children, the first is Pursuit of Happiness, published in early 2017. The third in the series, Dance of the Constellations, is to be published in the fall of 2017. Barbara also has written an adult novel that takes place in nineteenth-century San Francisco. It is to be published later in the year of 2017.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jessie Street Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 098880803X
• ISBN 13: 9780988808034
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg