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Cargando... The Scream (2002)por Joan Aiken
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is not one of Aiken's best as she mish-mashes a number of spooky folktales together - not successfully! There is the creepy island that has had all its residents moved after poison, there is the death of parents, a sister, revenge, a boy in a wheelchair, death of a grandmother and miraculous cure for paralysis - all in the one story! David's sister Lu-lyn loves her gran who has been exiled from her scottish island and has come to care for them after their parents were killed in a motor accident. Lu-lyn''s pet dove is killed by some local bullies and she puts the evil eye on them causing the ringleader to go blind. The Lu-lyn slips on oil that the 2 remaining bullies left on the stage during a dance recital and breaks her back and dies. David and his Gran believe the only way they can break the curse of The Scream (Lu-Lyn's favorite painting) is to throw her ashes onto the island. In the process, a huge wave swamps their boat and the Gran is washed overboard. The curse is broken because David can walk again when he returns to the mainland. We discover the curse was that Lu-Lyn screamed excessively in her father's ear and caused him to have the accident that killed him and his wife. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
When Davey and his sister are orphaned, their grandmother comes from a remote island to look after them--bringing macabre powers and dark secrets When Davey and his family moved to the city from the island of Muckle Burra off the coast of Scotland, they left his grandmother behind. But now his parents are dead--after a car accident that left Davey confined to a wheelchair--and Gran has moved in to take care of him and his sister, Lu-Lyn. A strange girl with a bizarre personality, Lu-Lyn is obsessed with 2 things: ballet and returning to Muckle Burra, where she was born. She believes that both she and Gran are "Ridders" who have strange, dark powers: With just 1 cast of their Evil Eye, bad things will start to happen. . . . When Lu-Lyn puts a terrible curse on the neighborhood boys who've been terrorizing her, it seems as if Gran's dark arts have followed her from Muckle Burra. Then tragedy rocks their family again, and Davey embarks on a journey that will reveal the true secret of his grandmother's rare gift--and the limitless power of his own potential. This ebook features illustrations by Ian Andrew and a personal history of Joan Aiken including rare images from the author's estate. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A prolific and much-beloved children's author, Joan Aiken is perhaps best known for her classic "Gothic" adventures, chief among them The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place. The Scream, which features Edvard Munch's famous painting of the same name, was written very late in the author's career, and although it makes for an agreeable "shivery" read, it does not have the power of Aiken's earlier work. It has its own modest charm however, and although David's voice is a little uneven at first, the reader soon settles into the narrative. ( )