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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-57131-696-7
Pages: 280
Publish Date: Dec, 2010
Genre: Young Readers
The Hole in the Wall
BY Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Eleven-year-old Sebby has found the perfect escape from his crummy house and bickering family—a secret cave he calls “The Hole in the Wall.” It’s all the more beautiful for being in the midst of a devastated mining area behind his home. But soon after Sebby finds his hideaway, his world starts falling apart: his family’s chickens disappear, he falls ill with the mother of all stomachaches, and he finds a special pair of eyeglasses that show him a world where colors come alive and fly through the air. When Sebby sets out to solve these mysteries, he and his twin sister, Barbie, get caught in a wild chase through the tunnels around The Hole in the Wall—all leading them to the mining activities of astrophysicist Stanley Odum. Exactly what is Odum mining in his secret facility, and does it have anything to do with the mysterious developments? The answers to these questions take the twins to places they never could have imagined.
A thrilling adventure awaits in this Top Ten Environmental Book for Youth (Booklist) and winner of the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature
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The Hole in the Wall
A thrilling adventure awaits in this Top Ten Environmental Book for Youth (Booklist) and winner of the Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature.
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“Sebby Daniels is growing up in a despoiled landscape going haywire in a specifically twenty-first-century way. Lisa Rowe Fraustino is masterful in this tale of surreal survival.”
—Richard Peck, Newbery Medal-winning author of A Year Down Yonder“The plot twists and turns from one surprising discovery to another. . . . It’s the urgent details of conservation that will pull readers, and when the issues reach right to Sebby’s home, the questions increase. This title will capture young environmentalists.”
—Booklist
