Betsy Byars

The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the depths of the sewers comes a monster so gargantuan that no fishbowl can hold it Warren Otis wants to make horror films when he grows up. But as an eight-year-old boy, he has to settle for imagining movies instead of making them. He's thought up some real nightmares, including Bubbles, an innocent goldfish flushed down the toilet and exposed to a chemical that turned her into a one-ton monster. Warren's life sometimes feels like it's a bad movie. He hasn't seen his mom for three years, since she's a fugitive from the FBI. His grandmother's cranky and his sister's acting mysterious. When things get too strange, Warren escapes into his imagination and writes one more scene featuring Bubbles. But will he ever get a chance to share his story with the people he loves? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author's personal collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453294154
• Artikelnr.: 44663085

Autorenporträt

Betsy Byars (1928-2020) was a Newbery Medal winner ( The Summer of the Swans) and a National Book Award winner ( The Night Swimmers). She also received an Edgar Award for Wanted . . . Mud Blossom. Byars began writing in college and submitted stories to magazines while raising four children. Her first novel, Clementine, was published in 1962, and in the decades following, she wrote more than fifty children's and young adult titles. Her works appeared on the best books list of the American Library Association, School Library Journal, and American Bookseller. She is best known for her Blossom Family and Bingo Brown book series. Byars was a licensed aircraft pilot, along with her husband of sixty-nine years, Ed. She lived with himabove their own private hangar on an airstrip in Seneca, South Carolina.