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Chargement... The Week at World's Endpar Emma Carroll
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Nothing ever happens in World's End Close. So when Stevie discovers a runaway girl in her coal shed, the first thing she does is fetch her best friend, Ray. Both are dying for a bit of adventure and when the girl begs for help, they readily agree. Yet they soon realise they've taken on more than they bargained for. The girl, Anna, reveals she's on the run from people who are trying to poison her. Meanwhile, on the news, the Americans and Russians are arguing over missiles in Cuba. As the threat of war grows, Anna's behaviour becomes more mysterious. And when Stevie unearths a dark family secret, she wonders if Anna has come to World's End Close on purpose, with a special message just for her. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Eleven year old Stevie lives on World’s End Close, “without a doubt, the dullest place on earth” -- until she finds a runaway girl in her coal shed.
Anna turning up had to be the most mysterious, intriguing thing to happen round here. And she needed help -- our help -- which made me realise just how rarely anyone else our age asked for it. Yes, at home Ray and me both did chores, but at school we were the girl who couldn’t read very well and the boy whose mum married a man with different colour skin. The other kids skirted around us. We weren’t part of things. Yet this strange girl was counting on us, which made me feel included, somehow.
Carroll is an excellent storyteller and all the different pieces fit together so effectively.
I was horrified by Stevie’s late-father’s account of witnessing the test of nuclear weapons, but it really helped me to share Stevie’s sense of looming catastrophe, rather than to look on with superior detachment because I knowing the crisis passes without her fears being realised.
For me, this book felt timely and reassuring. (