A. A. Vogel

Call of the Desert (eBook, ePUB)

Crossing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Content Warning:

Call of the Desert: Crossing includes elements of bullying and the threat of harm. Also, the main character's parents subject her to emotional abuse. Readers who may be sensitive to these elements, please take note.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trillium Creek Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798989953806
• Artikelnr.: 75186013

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 holds an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. She'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