Ten-year-old Belle Teal Harper lives with her mother and grandmother on the wrong side of the tracks, in a small rural community during the early 1960's. They don't have much, but they have each other, and Belle Teal feels rich with love and loyalty to her family and her best friends, Clarice and Little Boss. Although she is excited about the new school year, Belle Teal finds herself beginning to worry about other parts of her life. Her Gran's memory isn't what it used to be. Her mother seems more and more distracted by having to work two jobs to support the family. Little Boss' secret — the bruises and strap marks inflicted by his father, a mean-spirited drinker known as Big Boss — is finally pushing the boy toward losing what's left of his control. And there are two new students in her class, a shy African American boy who finds himself in the center of the town's resistance to integration, and a beautiful girl who craves popularity, seems hell-bent on making life miserable for Belle Teal, and is harboring a secret of her own. In her most moving work to date, Ann M. Martin captures the powerful voice of a girl discovering the cost of keeping secrets, and the strength and healing power of friendship and family.
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Ann Matthews Martin
Ann M. Martin nasceu em 1955 em Nova Jersey. Bastante elogiada pela crítica, escreve literatura infantil e juvenil há mais de 30 anos. Como procurar um cachorro perdido é seu livro mais recente e também o mais impactante. Atualmente, mora em Nova York com seus três gatos – Gussie, Pippin e Simon – e outros tantos resgatados. Além de dedicar seu tempo ao amor pelos animais, é uma das idealizadoras da organização Lisa Libraries, que doa livros para instituições que cuidam de crianças em situação de vulnerabilidade social.
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New Jersey, Estados Unidos