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Bumps in the Night / Amalie Howard. - Wydanie 1. - New York : Delacorte Press, 2019. - [4], 295, [1] strona ; ilustracje ; 22 cm.

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Howard, Amalie Autor

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Książki Proza

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Młodzież 9-13 lat

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Literatura amerykańska

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Thirteen-year-old Darika Lovelace is in big trouble. The kind of trouble that means she’s being sent off to her grandmother in the Caribbean. She should be grateful, but instead she’s angry. Angry at her dad and step-mom for sending her away for an entire summer. Angry at her mom who went away and never came back. But the island is definitely not what she remembers! The minute she steps off the plane, strange things start happening, including being stalked by a baby iguana. When she meets a ragtag group of children on her Granny’s estate, she knows they are not what they seem, but after they promise to take her to her long-lost mom, she leaps at the chance. Thrust into an incredible adventure involving strange monsters, a supernatural silk cotton tree, and a mysterious maze, soon the truth about her unique magical roots comes to light. She’s the island’s only hope, but unless she learns to believe in magic, all will be lost.

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

There are copies available to loan: sygn. III (1 egz.)

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Silent Honor / Danielle Steel. - New York : Delacorte Press, 1996. - 353 strony ; 24 cm.

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Steel, Danielle (1947- ). Autor

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Set against a vivid backdrop of war and change, this book tells the story of the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive. In August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her mother's belief in ancient traditions and her father's passion for modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for an education. To Hiroko, California is a different world – a world of barbecues, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California have become more American than Japanese – and Hiroko also finds a link between her old and new worlds when she becomes friendly with Peter, her uncle's university assistant. But on December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, and within hours, war is declared. Suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. Terrified, begging to go home, she is ordered by her father to stay. But as the military is empowered to remove the Japanese from their communities, Hiroko and her Californian family end up in the detention centre, where they fight to stay alive amid the drama of life and death in the camp. This extraordinary novel creates a portrait of human tragedy and strength, divided loyalties and love.

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 821-3 amer. R. (1 egz.)