Ingo - Ingo Adventures

Informationen zum Autor HELEN DUNMORE is a novelist, short story writer and poet. She has written twenty-two children’s books, including Brother Brother, Sister Sister ; The Lilac Tree ; The Seal Cove ; and the bestselling Ingo series. She has written nine adult books including A Spell of Winter , which won the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her poetry collections have won the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Signal Poetry Award. Helen Dunmore was born in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Bristol with her husband and children. Klappentext A whisper on the tide Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo. Perhaps that is why she imagines herself being pulled like a magnet toward the sea. But when her brother, Conor, starts disappearing for hours on end, Sapphy starts to believe she might not be the only one who hears the call of the ocean. In a novel full of longing, mystery, and magic, Helen Dunmore takes us to a new world that has the power both to captivate and to destroy. Zusammenfassung A whisper on the tide Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly! and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer! who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo. Perhaps that is why she imagines herself being pulled like a magnet toward the sea. But when her brother! Conor! starts disappearing for hours on end! Sapphy starts to believe she might not be the only one who hears the call of the ocean. In a novel full of longing! mystery! and magic! Helen Dunmore takes us to a new world that has the power both to captivate and to destroy.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Dunmore
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780060818548
• ISBN: 978-0-06-081854-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 191 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Ingo; Ingo
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Action & Adventure / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Contemporary *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Paranormal *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: People & Places / Europe *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Coming of Age *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Parents *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Romance, teen;cover love;children;maybe