Some Kind of Happiness - Couverture souple

Legrand, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1442466022 ISBN 13 : 9781442466029

Editeur : S&S Books for Young Readers, 2017

Synopsis

Reality and fantasy collide in this “beautiful and reflective tale” (Booklist, starred review) for fans of Counting by 7s and Bridge to Terabithia, about a girl who must save a magical make-believe world in order to save herself.

Things Finley Hart doesn’t want to talk about:
-Her parents, who are having problems. (But they pretend like they’re not.)
-Being sent to her grandparents’ house for the summer.
-Never having met said grandparents.
-Her blue days—when life feels overwhelming, and it’s hard to keep her head up. (This happens a lot.)

Finley’s only retreat is the Everwood, a forest kingdom that exists in the pages of her notebook. Until she discovers the endless woods behind her grandparents’ house and realizes the Everwood is real—and holds more mysteries than she’d ever imagined, including a family of pirates that she isn’t allowed to talk to, trees covered in ash, and a strange old wizard living in a house made of bones.

With the help of her cousins, Finley sets out on a mission to save the dying Everwood and uncover its secrets. But as the mysteries pile up and the frightening sadness inside her grows, Finley realizes that if she wants to save the Everwood, she’ll first have to save herself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now Ms. Legrand is a full-time writer living in New Jersey. She has written two middle grade novels—The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012, and The Year of Shadows—as well as the young adult novel Winterspell. Visit her at Claire-Legrand.com and on Twitter @ClaireLegrand.

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Some Kind of Happiness
HE IS COMING.

She is coming.

It was the beginning of summer. There were soft breezes in the air, and the Everwood was using them to speak.

The ancient guardians used spells and charms to weave a golden cage around the secret at the heart of the Everwood.

But still the secret grew and darkened, deep underground. It reached for the roots of the great Everwood trees like poison. Someday it would rise. Someday, soon, it would escape.

But those who lived in the Everwood—the witches and the goblins, the barrows and the fairies and the wood spirits—knew nothing of this. They turned their faces to the trees and listened, as they did every day.

Today the message was different.

She is coming, whistled the Everwood winds.

She is coming, rustled the Everwood leaves.

“Who?” the creatures of the forest asked. “Who is coming?”

The little orphan girl, groaned the trees. She carries a great sadness inside her. We must put our hope in her nevertheless.

And the guardians stood at the edge of the wood and gazed into the sun, waiting.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: S&S Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442466022
• ISBN 13: 9781442466029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas