Alien Secrets - Rilegato

Klause, Annette Curtis

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0385309287 ISBN 13: 9780385309288

Casa editrice: Delacorte Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Returning to Shoon after being expelled from school, Puck and Hush, a Shoon native who has lost the Soo, his people's symbol of freedom, encounter danger from the crew, passengers, and ghosts as they search the spaceship for the stolen artifact.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Annette Curtis Klause, a self-professed fan of horror, science fiction and fantasy, read her first vampire book when she was 14; it was Jane Gaskell's The Shining Narrow Grin. "I was enthralled," she says, and immediately began fantasizing about the book.


Klause, who is currently head of children's services at the Aspen Hill Community Library in Maryland, had been a member of a biweekly writing group, mostly writing picture books, when the group's "mentor" encouraged her to write a novel. While deciding on a subject, she "remembered the vampires," and after years of work, and six rejections, her highly acclaimed The Silver Kiss was published. Her second novel, Alien Secrets, features a main character whom Klause calls "a rather feisty

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ed from yet another boarding school, is on her way back to her parents, who are doing alien research on Shoon. She's worried because she hasn't seen them in years and now she's in trouble.

On board The Cat's Cradle, Puck befriends Hush, a native Shoowa, who is also returning to his home in shame. He was entrusted with a symbol of freedom for his people, and now that treasure has been stolen. He believes the Soo is hidden somewhere on The Cat's Cradle, and he must recover it before they reach Shoon and before it can be smuggled off the ship. Puck is determined to help, even though it means putting her life in danger--danger from the crew, other passengers, and the ghosts who are haunting the ship. If she fails, neither she nor Hush can return home with dignity.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Delacorte Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385309287
• ISBN 13: 9780385309288
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 227
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile