Katherine Hannigan Livres

What do you do when your life goes from righter than right to a million miles beyond wrong? Try to scare away the new neighbors with signs and posters that warn things like "Typhoons Known to Occur Here -- Water Rats Abound." Avoid eye contact and word contact, with Mama and Daddy in particular. Stay away from the orchard and the brook and the old tree and anything else that reminds you of how good things used to be. Put together the best plan you've ever created to get things back to just-about-perfect again.

True: Delly Pattison likes surpresents (presents that are a surprise). The day the Boyds come to town, Delly's sure a special surpresent is on its way. But lately, everything that she thinks will be good and fun turns into trouble. She's never needed a surpresent more than now. True: Brud Kinney wants to play basketball like nothing anybody's ever seen. When the Boyds arrive, though, Brud meets someone who plays like nothing he's ever seen. True: Ferris Boyd isn't like anyone Delly or Brud have ever met. Ferris is a real mysturiosity (an extremely curious mystery). True: Katherine Hannigan's first novel since her acclaimed Ida B is a compelling look at the ways friendships and truths are discovered. It's all true ( . . . sort of).

Witzig, impulsiv, lebensfroh ... und voller Tiefe Die elfjährige Delly ist anders: neugierig, unerschrocken, erfinderisch und impulsiv – und sie liebt Überraschungen. Das bringt ihr viel Ärger ein, bewirkt aber noch viel mehr Gutes. Delly eckt an, und hat doch ein großes Herz. Als das Mädchen Ferris neu in ihre Klasse kommt und nicht spricht und niemanden an sich heranlässt, ist Delly die Einzige, die ihr Vertrauen gewinnen kann. Für Delly ist es das Schönste und die größte Überraschung überhaupt!