Belle Prater

Belle PraterReeks

Deze serie duikt in de complexiteit van de adolescentie en zelfontdekking tegen de achtergrond van het leven in een kleine stad. Door de ogen van jonge protagonisten verkent het ingewikkelde familiegeheimen, het verdriet van verlies en de diepe banden van vriendschap. De verhalen kenmerken zich door aangrijpend realisme en een gevoelige weergave van emoties, die diep resoneren bij lezers. De focus ligt op de reis naar het begrijpen van de waarheid en het onder ogen zien van het verleden.

Aanbevolen leesvolgorde

BELLE PRATERS BOY

Ruth White

224bladzijden
8 uur lezen

4,2(79)Tarief

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.