Mystery Thriller 10/1999
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Carol Gorman Bücher
Carol Gorman widmet sich dem Schreiben von spannenden Kriminalromanen für junge Leser. Bevor sie sich ganz dem Schreiben widmete, unterrichtete sie siebzehn Jahre lang an verschiedenen Schulstufen. Ihre literarischen Bestrebungen werden von dem Wunsch angetrieben, fesselnde Geschichten zu erzählen und ihre Leidenschaft für Literatur sowohl mit jungen Lesern als auch mit aufstrebenden Autoren zu teilen. Gorman leitet häufig Schreibwerkstätten und Vorträge, inspiriert Schüler und entmystifiziert die Welt des Verlagswesens.
Starting middle school in a new town, brainy Jerry Flack changes his image from "dork" to "cool kid, " only to discover that he'd rather be himself.
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small Iowa town, and sets up camp near the river, the two strike up a friendship. Luther is a former Negro Baseball League player, and he agrees to coach Charlie's fledgling neighborhood baseball team.But many of the town's white residents are suspicious of Luther because of his skin color. And when Charlie inadvertently reveals a secret of Luther's, violence erupts in the town and both Luther and Charlie are drawn into serious danger.Authors Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley have created two highly memorable, emotionally complex characters in this dramatic story set in the days of the Negro Leagues that illustrates the meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism.
