Valerie Rolfe Lupini

There Goes the Neighbourhood

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Produktbeschreibung

Construction of monster houses drastically alters Ivy's neighborhood. She takes action and plans a defiant prank. It backfires, and she's left wondering if life will ever be the same again. There Goes the Neighborhood deals not only with important questions about race and cultural values, but it also addresses how we cope with change.

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Canadian Library Association Honour Book Red Cedar Book Award Nomination When the construction of monster houses alters Ivy's Vancouver neighborhood, she plans a defiant prank. When it backfires, she wonders if her life will ever be the same again. There Goes the Neighborhood deals not only with issues of race and cultural values, but also addresses how we cope with change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Deer Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 145g
• ISBN-13: 9780889951280
• ISBN-10: 0889951284
• Artikelnr.: 21153537

Autorenporträt

As a third generation Vancouverite, Valerie Rolfe Lupini fled the city to raise her family on Bowen and Vancouver islands. After the birth of her second son came the publication of her first book There Goes the Neighbourhood, followed by a decade of mothering and homeschooling. After that she wrote her second book, The Whistle, though fiction, developed after she delved into her family's colorfull homesteading history.