Ann Brashares: Westfallen, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Westfallen
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury UK, 09/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781526686916
- Item number:
- 11921310
- Volume:
- 416 Pages
- Age recommendation:
- 12 Jahre
- Weight:
- 276 g
- Format:
- 197 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 17.9.2024
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Westfallen |
Price |
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| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 9.98* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 18.45* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 12.23* |
Blurb
We didn't mean to change the past. Now we have to win the war.
A stunning 'what if?' story by a bestselling author about two groups of 12-year-olds - one in World War Two, one in the present day.
Henry, Frances and Lukas are neighbours, and they used to be best friends. But in middle school Frances got emo, Lukas went to private school and Henry just felt left behind. When they come together again for the funeral of a pet gerbil, the three ex-friends make a mind-blowing discovery: a radio, buried in Henry's garden, that allows them to talk to another group of three kids in the same town in New Jersey, USA ... in the same backyard ... eighty years in the past.
The kids in 1944 want to know about the future: are there laser guns? Flying cars? Jetpacks, at least? Most of all, they want to know about the outcome of the world war that their dad and brothers are fighting in. Though Henry is cautious - he's seen movies about what happens when you disrupt the fabric of time - soon the present-day kids are sending their new friends on a mission to rescue a doomed sweet shop. What harm could that do? But one change leads to another, and the six friends accidentally change the course of history in the worst way imaginable: the Nazis winning the war. Now it's up to the friends to change it back.
'Smart, compelling thriller... also often funny' LoveReading4Kids website
Co-author Ann Brashares is a New York Times bestseller for The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, here writing with her fellow children's author and brother Ben for the first time.
Biography (Ann Brashares)
Ann Brashares wuchs mit drei Brüdern in der Nähe von Washington D.C. auf. Sie studierte Philosophie an der Columbia University in New York, unterbrach jedoch das Studium aus finanziellen Gründen und begann, in einem großen amerikanischen Verlag zu arbeiten. Die Arbeit dort gefiel ihr so gut, dass sie nicht mehr an die Uni zurückging und stattdessen einige Jahre als Lektorin tätig war. Seit 2000 widmet sich Ann Brashares ganz dem Schreiben ihre Serie 'Eine Jeans für vier' über vier Freundinnen um die 16 ist weltweit ein durchschlagender Erfolg. Ihr erstes Buch für Erwachsene, 'Unser letzter Sommer', war ein New-York-Times Bestseller in den USA. Brashares lebt mit ihrem Mann, dem Porträtmaler Jacob Collins, und ihren drei Kindern in Brooklyn, New York.
