Angel's Gate
by Gary Crew
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Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.Tags
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YA. A murder mystery and an exploration of the concepts of freedom and family, set in modern rural Australia. My 14 yo son and I both enjoyed and were impressed by it. As the climax approached I got too agitated to finish straight through and had to take a break and do housework. Then it turned out to be not quite as ridiculously fantastic as I feared, but still plenty intense.
I loved this book as a child. The story of the abandoned children is beautifully told.
Verhaal wordt verteld door de ogen van 11-jarig jongetje. Spannend verhaal dat goed wordt opgebouwd - soms iets te traag, maar niet vervelend. Je kunt goed 'meeleven' met de personages. Je voelt, ziet, ruikt de beschreven situaties, met uitzondering van hetgeen zich nu rondom de moord heeft afgespeeld. Dat vond ik wat moeilijk voor te stellen. Vond het plot ook wat 'afgeraffeld'; alsof de schrijver er geen goed einde aan wist te breien. Maar al met al een goed boek!
May 28, 2011Dutch
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Gary Crew was born on September 23, 1947 in Brisbane, Australia. He left school at age 16 to become a cadet Civil Engineering Draftsman. He graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology and worked in a drawing office for ten years as a design draftsman. He became bored and decided to try teaching. He received a master's degree in show more literature at Queensland University and became a teacher in 1974. He taught English at various high schools in Brisbane. Crew began writing fiction in 1985. Because of his teaching background and his own teenage children, he decided to write for children and young adults. He won the Children's Book Council Book of the Year four times - twice for his young adult novels, Strange Objects in 1991 and Angel's Gate in 1993, and twice for his illustrated books, First Light in 1993 and The Watertower in 1994. His other works include The Viewer, Mama's Babies, and The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie. He also writes crime and science-fiction short stories for both young adult and adult audiences. His other awards include the National Children's Book Award, the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards, and the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1993
- Important places
- Outback, Australia
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .C867 .A — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 68
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 3
