Slide or Die

Informationen zum Autor Todd Strasser has written many award-winning novels for adults, teenagers and children including Boot Camp, Can't Get There from Here, Give a Boy a Gun and Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date, the latter of which was adapted for the Fox feature film Drive Me Crazy, with script by Rob Thomas. Todd Strasser speaks frequently at schools. He lives in Westchester County, New York. Craig Phillips has been creating cover art and drawings for books, comics, and magazines for nearly two decades. He is most at home working on tales about myth and magic. His latest book— Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods —is a 200-page graphic novel about just that! It will be in stores in May 2017. When he is not drawing and writing, he likes to swim in the lakes and walk in the forests and mountains of New Zealand. Visit him at CraigPhillips.com.au. Klappentext Part surfing! part racing! drifting--the car craze popularized in Japanese manga--is the art of sliding a car around a steep! downhill corner without spinning out of control. This new trilogy features Kennin! a boy with a mysterious past and an unnatural talent for drifting. Illustrations. Zusammenfassung Drift it. Sling it. Slide it. Shred it.... Just don't get T-boned. Kennin is new to Sin City! running from a tragic past and anxious to start a life outside the gearhead crowd. But he can't resist the lure of all the hot! tricked-out cars in Las Vegas. WhenKennin accidentally proves his talent! he's pulled into a tsuiso battle against the toughest drivers around. The competition is cutthroat! and Kennin's outsider status only makes it worse. With ugly rivalries and vicious sabotage all around him! Kennin's ride will be gut-wrenchingly dangerous...and totally amping.

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• Autori: Todd Strasser, Todd/ Phillips Strasser, Strasser Todd
• Con la collaborazione di: Craig Phillips (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 14 a 99 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.01.2006
• EAN: 9781416905813
• ISBN: 978-1-4169-0581-3
• Pagine: 198
• Dimensioni: 178 mm x 127 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Drift X; DriftX; DriftX; Drift X
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Libri per bambini fino a 11 anni; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Sports & Recreation / General, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General