Lisa Howorth

Summerlings

A Novel

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It's the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, D.C. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy with secrets about the A-bomb. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation-surely evidence of insect warfare by the Russians! So when a rare vinegaroon-a whip scorpion-is discovered on Capitol Hill and sequestered for study at the Smithsonian, the boys, along with their tomboy accomplice, Beatriz, hatch a risky midnight plan to steal the deadly creature for their own devious purposes. Yet whe… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-385-54465-8
EAN: 9780385544658
Produktnummer: 29329693
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'249 KB
Abbildungen: 1 ILLUSTRATION IN TEXT

Über den Autor

LISA HOWORTH was born in Washington, D.C., where her family has lived for four generations. She is a former librarian and the author of the novel Flying Shoes. She has written on art, travel, dogs, and music for the Oxford American and Garden & Gun, among other publications. Howorth lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she and her husband, Richard, founded Square Books in 1979.