Outrun the Moon
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Taschenbuch
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Strong FMC + weitere
Altersempfehlung
ab 12 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
02.05.2017
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
416
Maße (L/B/H)
20,8/13,6/3 cm
Gewicht
383 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-14-751691-6
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes an unforgettable story of determination set against a backdrop of devastating tragedy, perfect for fans of Code Name Verity.
Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Young Adult
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, San Francisco in 1906, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare’s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong—until disaster strikes.
On April 18, a historic earthquake rocks San Francisco, destroying Mercy’s home and school. Now she’s forced to wait with her classmates for their families in a temporary park encampment. Though fires might rage, and the city may be in shambles, Mercy can’t sit by while they wait for the army to bring help—she still has the “bossy” cheeks that mark her as someone who gets things done. But what can one teenage girl do to heal so many suffering in her broken city?
Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Young Adult
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, San Francisco in 1906, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare’s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong—until disaster strikes.
On April 18, a historic earthquake rocks San Francisco, destroying Mercy’s home and school. Now she’s forced to wait with her classmates for their families in a temporary park encampment. Though fires might rage, and the city may be in shambles, Mercy can’t sit by while they wait for the army to bring help—she still has the “bossy” cheeks that mark her as someone who gets things done. But what can one teenage girl do to heal so many suffering in her broken city?
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nice treatment of racism for classroom use
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Stacey Lee's short novel about the dramatic coming of age of a young girl out of Frisco's Chinatown told before the backdropp of the catastrophic earthquake of 1906 lends itself nicely for use as a classroom reader. It deals with the problems of a multi-racial and multi-cultural melting pot as we witness it and live thorugh everywhere in Europe these days and mixes that deftly with issues of gender-stereotyping and superstition. Without pointing a finger and patronizing moralizing the author manages to transport a deeply humanist message: we all should be there for each other and help each other out - and in extraordinary circumstances we might even manage to actually do so.
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