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Twelve-year-old Claire Hamilton has just moved to Saudi Arabia for her dad's job and she's afraid-of desert dogs that roam in packs outside her compound, of being labeled Loser at school, of losing the hard-earned love of her parents. The desert intrigues yet frightens Claire. It's where she finds a magical snake-sent to help her, if Claire's eccentric neighbor can be believed. The desert will also sift Claire until only her truest self remains. Claire's convinced nobody could love that, so she decides to avoid the desert. But the desert's everywhere, and the sifting has begun. If it exposes…mehr

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Twelve-year-old Claire Hamilton has just moved to Saudi Arabia for her dad's job and she's afraid-of desert dogs that roam in packs outside her compound, of being labeled Loser at school, of losing the hard-earned love of her parents. The desert intrigues yet frightens Claire. It's where she finds a magical snake-sent to help her, if Claire's eccentric neighbor can be believed. The desert will also sift Claire until only her truest self remains. Claire's convinced nobody could love that, so she decides to avoid the desert. But the desert's everywhere, and the sifting has begun. If it exposes the real her, Claire's new friends-Olivia, who's famous for being nice, and Luke, who works at being invisible-will dump her for sure. As strange and unexplainable events begin happening to Claire and her friends, her fears mount. Will she lose Olivia and Luke, disappoint her parents, and have her life ruined by the desert-or whatever is behind all this? Or is Claire about to discover a love beyond her imagination that will help her embrace who she is, who she's meant to be?
Autorenporträt
A. A. (Alison Andrews) Vogel was born in southern California, lived in Saudi Arabia and England with her parents as a teen, went to boarding school in Switzerland, and finally settled down in the greater Seattle area with her husband. Alison's been an aerospace scientist, a soccer mom, a liturgical artist, and a technical writer. Now all she does is write YA fiction. Mostly. Call it a case of arrested development, but Alison writes teen fiction because that's what she likes/needs to read. Scratch the surface of any YA story worth its salt, and you've got at least one important life lesson you get to learn or relearn right along with the protagonist. See https://alisonvogel.com