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(3.5) | 1 | Ivory is fourteen and she's in love with Blake, madly, totally in love. Blake, fifteen, loves her, but he feels a bit suffocated. Unknown to her parents, they meet nights and weekends at the gravel pit in back of Stan's Bottle Redemption, where the gang, ranging in age from fourteen to the late twenties, hangs out. Blake's buddy, Tommy, has a motorcycle. He thinks Ivory is cute, too. So do some of the older fellows.In school, the girls have sex ed lectures -- which gross them out -- right after practical math. Yet Ivory is going through another pregnancy scare, a little "maybe baby", she confides to her girlfriends. "Derek for a boy. Tamara for a girl".One night Ivory doesn't come home. She seems to have vanished. Someone knows where Ivory is, but no one is telling. Will the truth ever be known?In a haunting blend of lyricism and hard-edged realism, Kate Kennedy illuminates the dangerous culture of small-town youth.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Blake loves me, Ivory repeats to herself to push away the other words: He's in love with somebody else. | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen Ivory is fourteen and she's in love with Blake, madly, totally in love. Blake, fifteen, loves her, but he feels a bit suffocated. Unknown to her parents, they meet nights and weekends at the gravel pit in back of Stan's Bottle Redemption, where the gang, ranging in age from fourteen to the late twenties, hangs out. Blake's buddy, Tommy, has a motorcycle. He thinks Ivory is cute, too. So do some of the older fellows.In school, the girls have sex ed lectures -- which gross them out -- right after practical math. Yet Ivory is going through another pregnancy scare, a little "maybe baby", she confides to her girlfriends. "Derek for a boy. Tamara for a girl".One night Ivory doesn't come home. She seems to have vanished. Someone knows where Ivory is, but no one is telling. Will the truth ever be known?In a haunting blend of lyricism and hard-edged realism, Kate Kennedy illuminates the dangerous culture of small-town youth. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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