Crazy Lady

Jane Leslie Conly

juil. 2000 · Penguin Random House Audio · Lu par Ed Begley, Jr.

À propos de ce livre audio

Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts: Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a special home, Vernon fights against the move.

1994 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books of 1994 (ALA)
1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1994 Young Adult Editors' Choices (BL)
1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
Young Adult Choices for 1995 (IRA)

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Leslie Conly is the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien and an award-winning author in her own right. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death. Her first own book, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, was published in 1986, and is a sequel to her father's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Her Crazy Lady! won the Newbery Honor; Murder Afloat was named to the 2011-2012 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her family.