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Ursula Dubosarsky - The Golden Day - 9781406351149 - KSG0018158
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The Golden Day

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Description for The Golden Day Paperback. When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological thriller. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.

When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological thriller.

The Vietnam War rages overseas but back home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing during a school outing. Who was the mysterious poet they had met in the garden? What actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important – who can they tell about it? In beautifully crafted prose that ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Walker Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781406351149
SKU
KSG0018158
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Ursula Dubosarsky
Ursula Dubosarsky is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults. About The Golden Day, her first book for Walker, she says, "The little girls watch, wonder, respond, change and grow –and then they're gone, for ever. This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical. But, as I say – all of our ... Read more

Reviews for The Golden Day
In a stunning feat of perspective, Dubosarsky inhabits all 11 girls at once, snaking through a thousand small joys and triumphs and fears and petty grudges as they absorb life's bleakest truths as well as their own complicity in them... This is a masterful look at children's numb surprise to the most unsavoury of adult developments.
Booklist (starred review) ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Golden Day


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