The Key to the Indian [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Banks, Lynne Reid

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ISBN 10: 0001857142 ISBN 13: 9780001857148

Casa editrice: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 1998

Riassunto

The fifth title in this gripping series about Omri and his plastic North American Indian – Little Bull – who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard.

Omri and his father travel back in time to find Little Bull and his people in deep trouble, torn between staying in the West and facing extinction or starting a long trek to a new life in Canada. Omri’s final parting with Little Bull is incredibly moving yet the book is also very funny.

We meet other favourite characters as well as some new ones and there are wonderful descriptive passages about Little Bull’s longhouse and the Iroquois lifestyle. Even though this seems like the end of the story, Lynne does have ideas for a sequel.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lynne Reid Banks was born in London in 1929. She was an actress in the early 1950s and later became one of the first two women TV News reporters in Britain. She is a best-selling author for both children and adults, and has written over thirty books, including The L-Shaped Room.

Lynne Reid Banks has three grown-up sons and lives in Dorset and London with her sculptor husband, Chaim Stephenson.

Dalla quarta di copertina

"Did you find out, dad? Were the British being rotten?" Omri asked.
"We left our Indian allies in the lurch all right, round about 1783. But there were still decisions for the Indians to take, bad ones and not-so-bad ones . . . You don't know how badly I want to find a way to help Little Bull to make the right one. "

Omri's dad has found Omri's greatest secret – the secret of the magic cupboard that turns plastic toy figures into real live little people form the past; and the key made by his 'wicked' great-great aunt, that can transform certain containers into time-machines and take present-day people back into the past.

Omri and his father secretly resolve to go back two hundred years to the time of Little Bull, Omri's Indian friend, whose tribe is in dire trouble. But many obstacles lie in the way, and the magic doesn't always work the way they expect . . . Omri finds himself in grave danger in the India of his great-grandfather's time before they discover a way to get to Little Bull's village – where the greatest and most terrifying adventure of all awaits them.

"Enthralling and hair-raising reading"
TLS

"Eight-year-olds upwards are captivated by these stories."
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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0001857142
• ISBN 13: 9780001857148
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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