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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"La noticia de una tragedia hace añicos la tranquila vida de Gil como profesor de Escritura Creativa en un pequeño pueblo de Vermont. Su hermana y su cuñado han muerto en un violento accidente de tráfico y él se ve obligado a adoptar a su sobrino Matthew, un joven en apariencia encantador y dulce, aunque no parece estar afectar por la muerte de sus padres. Lo que en un inicio es un acto de amor, pronto se convertirá en la peor pesadilla para...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A funny and deeply moving novel about a boy, his dream, and the people who lend him a hand, by the acclaimed author of As You Were. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his...
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