The Book of the Banshee

by Anne Fine

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Will Flowers feels his younger sister, suddenly transformed into a teenaged banshee, is responsible for turning the family home into a veritable war zone.

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Casa nostra è un campo di battaglia, in un certo senso. O almeno è quello che dice la mamma. Lei sostiene che da quando Estelle si è trasformata da un giorno all'altro in una strega urlante, casa nostra è diventata l'inferno in terra. A volte ha talmente paura che non entra neanche dalla porta di casa come un normale essere umano. Parcheggia la macchina un po' più in là, si avvicina furtiva e bussa alla finestra della stanza dove faccio i compiti, lo la apro e mi affaccio. La mamma è lì, nell'aiuola, con tutte le scarpe infangate. "In che stato è tua sorella?" "Ha la luna storta" rispondo. Sul viso della mamma si dipinge un'espressione spaventata. "Oddio. Aiutami a entrare". Non riesco a immaginare che cosa penseranno i vicini, show more vedendola sollevare la gonna e arrampicarsi sulla finestra ogni giorno. La mamma dice che se hanno avuto una figlia adolescente capiranno al volo, in caso contrario inutile provare a spiegarglielo. Età di lettura: da 12 anni. show less

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Anne Fine was the second Children's Laureate in Britain between 2001 and 2003. She is a two time winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain's most coveted children's literature award, and has also won the Guardian Children's Literature Award, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award twice, and a Smarties Prize. She also won the Publishing News Children's show more Author of the Year Award in 1990 and again in 1993. In 2010 she won the inaugural Good Writing Award. Her books for older children include the award winning The Tulip Touch, Goggle-Eyes, which was adapted for television by the BBC and The Devil Walks. Twentieth Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. She also writes critically acclaimed adult novels as well. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages, and has over forty books to her credit. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Quell'arpia di mia sorella
Original title
The book of the banshee
Original publication date
1991
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For Brigadier Warren
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Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .F495673 .BLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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