Hoggee - Brossura

Myers, Anna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802796834 ISBN 13: 9780802796837

Casa editrice: Walker & Co, 2007

Riassunto

Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State. Reprint.

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L'autore

ANNA MYERS is the author of more than one dozen books for Walker & Company, including, most recently Confessions from the Principal's Chair. Tulsa Burning was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and Assassin was an Oklahoma Book Award winner. Anna lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Visit her Web site at www.annamyers.info

Product Description

Howard Gardner is starving to death. All spring and summer, Howard and his older, more charming brother Jack worked as hoggees, driving the mules that pulled boats along the Erie Canal. In a misguided attempt to outshine his brother, Howard chooses to stay behind in Birchport for the winter to save his traveling money and send it home to his family. After his winter job falls through, Howard fears that he might not survive the winter.
As desperate as Howard is, he is haunted by the sadness he sees in the eyes of Sarah, the granddaughter of the man who keeps the mules. Even though she’s older than her two sisters, she never speaks, and she seems completely disconnected from the world. Sarah’s family won’t discuss her problem with outsiders, but Howard longs to help her in any way he can, and his quest to do so eventually reveals to him how he truly compares to his brother.
Once again, Anna Myers has crafted a moving, nuanced coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of an intriguing historical era.

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• Editore: Walker & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802796834
• ISBN 13: 9780802796837
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 182