The Wishing Game - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year, a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into 21 languages . Meg holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky with her husband and two cats. The cats are not writers. Klappentext "Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with her students: in particular, a seven-year-old orphan named Christopher. The Clock Island books were Lucy's passion and refuge as a child, and now she shares them with Christopher, who's become as big of a fan as she ever was. Then Lucy is one of four diehard Clock Island fans who receive the invitation of a lifetime: to stay on Jack Masterson's private island and compete for the un-published manuscript of the final book in the series. Lucy must contend with opportunists, cheaters, and Jack's illustrator and companion on the island, Hugo Reese. All the while, the master of ceremonies, the prolific author himself, has his own secrets to keep-- and a larger plan in the works that will change everything for all of them"-- Leseprobe Chapter One The school bell rang at two-thirty, and the usual stampede of little feet followed. Lucy took backpack duty and lunch box duty while Ms. Theresa, the class’s teacher, called out her usual warnings. “Backpacks and lunch boxes and papers! If you forget anything, I’m not bringing it home to you and neither is Miss Lucy!” Some of the children listened. Some ignored her. Thankfully, this was kindergarten, so the stakes were pretty low. Several of the kids hugged her on their way out the door. Lucy always relished these quick squishes, as they called them. They made the long draining days of being a teacher’s aide—refereeing playground fights, cleaning up after potty accidents, tying and retying a thousand shoelaces, and drying a thousand tears—worth the endless work. When the classroom finally emptied, Lucy slumped in her chair. Luckily, she was off bus duty today, so she had a few minutes to recover. Theresa surveyed the damage with a garbage bag in hand. All the round tables were covered in bits of construction paper, glue bottles left open and leaking. Fat pencils and fuzzy pipe cleaners were littered all over the floor. “It’s like the Rapture,” Theresa said with a wave of her hands. “Poof. They’re gone.” “And we’re left behind again,” Lucy said. “What did we do wrong?” Something, obviously, because she was, at that very moment, prying a wad of gum off the bottom of the table for the second time that week. “Here, give me the garbage bag. That’s my job.” Lucy took the bag and dropped the gum into it. “You sure you don’t mind cleaning up alone?” Theresa asked. Lucy waved her hand to shoo her away. Theresa looked as exhausted as Lucy felt, and the poor woman still had a school committee meet­ing today. Anyone who thought teaching was easy had obviously never tried it. “Don’t worry about it,” Lucy said. “Christopher likes to help.” “I love when the kids are still young enough that you can trick them into doing chores because they think they’re playing.” Theresa dug her purse out of the bottom desk drawer. “I told Rosa she couldn’t mop the kitchen because that was for grown-ups, and she literally pouted until I let her do it.” “Is that what being a mother is?” Lucy asked. “Pulling a long con on your kids?” “Pretty much,” Theresa said. “I’ll see you in the morning. Tell Christopher hello.” Theresa left, and Lucy glanced around at the classroom. It looked as...

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• Autori: Meg Shaffer
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.10.2023
• EAN: 9780593909201
• ISBN: 978-0-593-90920-1
• Pagine: 432
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi