Maggot Moon
of Sally Gardner
Description
One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell - who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright - sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers." So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it's big...
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288 pages
- Publisher Candlewick
- Publication Date February 12th 2013
- First Publication 09/06/12
- Language English
- ISBN 9780763665531
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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