The Islanders - Couverture rigide

Woodbridge, Nancy Garfield

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1503535843 ISBN 13 : 9781503535848

Editeur : Xlibris Corporation, 2015

Synopsis

Marco, un jeune garçon de Jamaïque, est venu dans le Maine. En Jamaïque, il avait de la famille et des amis, mais dans le Maine, il est très seul. Marco devient ami avec Jacob, un pêcheur de homard qui lui apprend à faire fonctionner son bateau. Marco prend le ferry pour l'école sur le continent. Certains enfants harcèlent Marco, mais la Flandre, un garçon plus âgé, le défend. Un jour, Marco découvre que Jake est manquant. Il emprunte le bateau de Flandre et utilise ses nouvelles compétences pour le retrouver dans une tempête hivernale. Lisez le reste de l'histoire pour découvrir ce qui se passe.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

About the Author Nancy Garfield Woodbridge authored the picture storybooks The Tuesday Elephant, illustrated by Tom Feelings, published by T. Y. Crowell, and The Dancing Monkey, illustrated by Rocco Negri, published by G. P. Putnam and Sons. She also directed several projects for Girl Scouts of the USA: Worlds to Explore, A Handbook for Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts, Careers to Explore and from Dreams to Reality, a Career Education Program, as well as Juvenile Justice. On scholarship, she received a BA in literature from Bennington College in Vermont. She graduated with an MS in education from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Ms. Garfield Woodbridge has been writing since she first held a pen at age eight when she wrote her first novel. She has recently published A Bouquet of Fairy Tales, Hilary and the Secret Skulls, Poems in Exile, Stories from Around the World, and More Stories from Around the World. Arctic Butterfly and Suns of Darkness will be published in 2015. About the Illustrator Jocelyn Thomas lives and works in the FernieBlairmore portion of the southeastern Canadian Rockies. She grew up in Toronto and has a master's from the Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto. She specialized in art history and archaeology and gained acceptance to the studio program. She pursued postMA studies briefly at Penn State University. Jocelyn instructed in portraiture at the Avenue Road Arts School in Toronto and was content developer at Medium Cool, a multimedia studio in Toronto, working on projects for Harcourt Brace publishers and Canadian Geographic magazine.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Marco, a young boy from Jamaica, has come to Maine. In Jamaica, he had family and friends, but in Maine, he is very alone. Marco becomes friends with Jacob, a lobster fisherman who teachers him how to run his boat. Marco takes the ferry to school on the mainland. Some children harass Marco, but Flanders, an older boy, defends him. One day Marco discovers Jake is missing. He borrows Flanders's boat and uses his new skills to find him in a winter storm. Read the rest of the story to find out what happens.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Xlibris Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503535843
• ISBN 13: 9781503535848
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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