The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden
When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project-building a phone booth in his garden. At first Makio is puzzled; the phone isn't connected to anything. It just sits there, unable to ring. But as more and more villagers are drawn to the phone booth, its purpose becomes clear to Makio: the disconnected phone is connecting people to their lost loved ones. Makio calls to the sea to return what it has taken from him and ultimately finds his voice and solac…
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Weitere Autoren: Wada, Rachel (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4598-2104-0
- EAN: 9781459821040
- Produktnummer: 32840769
- Verlag: Orca Book Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 19 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 26'692 KB
Über den Autor
Originally from Newfoundland, Heather Smith now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her family. Her Newfoundland roots inspire much of her writing. Her middle-grade novel Ebb and Flow was short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award, and her YA novel The Agony of Bun O'Keefe won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and was short-listed for the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
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