Belle Prater

Belle PraterSéries

Cette série explore les complexités de l'adolescence et de la découverte de soi dans le contexte de la vie en petite ville. À travers les yeux de jeunes protagonistes, elle aborde d'intrigants secrets de famille, la douleur de la perte et les liens profonds de l'amitié. Les récits se distinguent par un réalisme poignant et une représentation sensible des émotions, qui trouvent un écho profond chez les lecteurs. L'accent est mis sur le cheminement vers la compréhension de la vérité et l'acceptation du passé.

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BELLE PRATERS BOY

Ruth White

224pages
8 heures de lecture

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Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth. Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. Woodrow isn't as forthcoming as Gypsy hopes, yet he becomes more than just a curiosity to her-- during their sixth-grade year she finds that they have enough in common to be best friends. Even so, Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance, especially since she herself has never gotten over her father's death. When Woodrow finally reveals that he's been keeping a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand that there are different ways of finding the strength to face the truth, no matter how painful it is. Belle Prater's Boy is a 1996 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Fiction and a 1997 Newbery Honor Book.