In the Clear
On her seventh birthday, Pauline rode across the lawns on her street followed by her best friend Henry, he on the blue wooden horse, she on the red. On the seventh lawn at the top of the street, she collapsed, becoming a sudden victim of the polio outbreak of the summer of 1954. Five years later, when In the Clear begins, she has survived, but paid a heavy price. A brace on her left leg allows her to walk, but she confines herself to her house, humiliated at the notion of being seen. Terrified by what Pauline has already suffered, her mother watches over her, forbidding her to play hockey on the ice rink her father has created in the backyard…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-55469-484-6
- EAN: 9781554694846
- Produktnummer: 27918109
- Verlag: Orca Book Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 562 KB
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Anne Laurel Carter is a multi-award-winning author of books for children, including Under the Prairie Sky (Orca 2004). When she's not writing, she's reading. Anne lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she works full-time as a teacher-librarian.
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