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The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden
eBook - The Night Flyer's Handbook, The Night Flyer's Handbook
ISBN/EAN: 9781459707375
Umbreit-Nr.: 2149328
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 200 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 13.01.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <i>This morning, I woke up on the ceiling </i><br><br>So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brothers Batman balloons.<br><br>Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks shes an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school. On top of all that, now shes a flying freak.<br><br>How can she tell her best friend or her mother? How can she live her life? After Gwendolyn almost meets disaster flying too high and too fast one night, help arrives from the most unexpected place. And stranger still? Shes not alone.
- Kurztext
- Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many<i>average</i> teenage qualities, Gwendolyn Golden can also<i>fly</i>. Whats happening to her?
- Autorenportrait
- Philippa Dowding is an award-winning copywriter, a poet and childrens author. Her YA books in the Lost Gargoyle series were shortlisted for the Diamond Willow, Hackmatack and Silver Birch awards, and<i>The Gargoyle at the Gates</i> was named a White Raven Book 2013 from the International Youth Library in Munich. Philippa lives in Toronto with her family.