A Clearing in the Forest
An elderly woman and a young boy team up to save the countryside Old Frances Crawford is looking for wild mushrooms when she hears the gunshot. A few minutes later, the teenage hunter blunders into her clearing, two dead rabbits over his shoulder. As an apology for hunting on her land, Wilson offers her one of the rabbits, and Frances is happy to take it. She hasn't been able to afford meat for some time. He is handing it over when she falls at his feet in a dead faint. Wilson carries Frances home and the two get to talking-about fossils, about the woods, about the best way to cook rabbit with wild mushrooms. Soon this tough old lady is teach…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4976-7390-8
- EAN: 9781497673908
- Produktnummer: 31907207
- Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 121 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 18 J.
Über den Autor
Gloria Whelan is a poet, short story writer, and novelist best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Whelan has been writing since childhood and was the editor of her high school newspaper. Many of her books are set in Michigan, but she also writes about faraway places based on her travels abroad. In 2000 she won the National Book Award for her young adult novel Homeless Bird. Her other works have earned places among the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults, the International Reading Association's Teachers' Choices and Children's Choices, Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, and Los Angeles' 100 Best Books. Whelan has also received the Mark Twain Award and the O. Henry Award. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.
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