Description
Near Fine dust jacket. a mylar dust jacket has been added, illustrated with two boys outside. Near Fine binding is dark blue paper over boards, aqua cloth-backed, silver lettering on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.5″ tall x 5.7″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Twelve-year-old old Sawyer house stand deserted for Solly watches the many months, until the arrival of the Ferris family and strange, quiet Daniel Ferris. Then late one dark night Solly sees Daniel sitting alone-almost ghostlike- in Ferris garden gazebo. Solly the cannot resist the urge to talk to this boy, who is like no one he has ever met before. As the two become friends, Daniel warns Solly that he is not like other kids. He has been hospitalized for what his mother calls “tender tempers.” And then one day Daniel shares with Solly his deepest secret: he has found diaries in the house, left behind by Martin Sawyer, with entries that eerily parallel present events. Solly knows that Martin’s father can never return from the dead, as the diaries promise. But is Solly wise enough to predict Daniel’s own bizarre connection to the diaries and spare his friend a tragic twist of fate?
In direct, compelling prose, this second novel by award-winning author Karen Ackerman is a haunting story of conscience, fate, and human nature. Anyone who has ever sought the connection between the past and the present will find The Broken Boy unforgettable.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
As the only child of older parents, KAREN ACKERMAN began her education as a writer early in life. Besides reading continuously, she learned to observe her world closely and had a penchant for writing stories and drawing. After she expressed herself on the walls of her home, her parents decided such creativity needed an appropriate outlet, and gave her a large closet in which to write and illustrate.
As an adult, Ms. Ackerman, by then a poet, wrote for some years for a greeting-card company, but she soon realized her gift for recall and began creating stories, many of them gleaned from her extended midwestern family. She has since published more than twenty books, including the Caldecott Medal-winning Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, and Moveable Mabeline, illustrated by Linda Allen Written at her home in Cincinnati, and inspired by a childhood friendship, The Broken Boy is Ms. Ackerman’s fourth book with Philomel.
