Betsy Franco

Metamorphosis

Junior Year

Buch

He's a young artist obsessed with myths. But can he fix his own fate? Acclaimed author Betsy Franco and her talented son collaborate on a hip YA novel of epic proportions.Life. Love. Death. Identity. Ovid's got a lot on his mind, and he pours it all - as confessions, observations, narrative poems, and drawings - into the pages of a notebook. Inspired by his namesake, he wryly records his classmates' dramas as modern-day Roman mythology. There's Sophie and Caleb, the Psyche and Cupid of cyber-couples; poetic Paula, who pursues filmmaker Franny like Apollo chasing Daphne; and graphic novelist Duwayne, a Proserpina shuttling between divorced par… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Franco, Tom

ISBN: 978-0-7636-3765-1
EAN: 9780763637651
Produktnummer: 4730973
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
Sonstiges: Ab 14 J.

Über den Autor

Betsy Franco has written more than thirty books and anthologies for children. She originally wrote Metamorphosis as a collection of poems, which called to mind her son Thomas's notebook and journal drawings. She lives in California.Thomas Franco has been a creative artist since the age of thirteen. The drawings in Metamorphosis were created during his high school years and reworked as a series for this book. He lives in California.