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The Return of Calico Bright

The Return of Calico Bright


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An epic coming-of-age story She suspects her boyfriend of cheating and her best friend of betrayal. But that's not the worst of sixteen-year-old Callie Weston's sorrows. The unveiling of not just one but two of her mother's deceptions has driven Callie to despair. With an unlikely companion, she heads off into the wild and beautiful Madras Mountains to capture the spirit of her great-great- great-great-grandmother Calico Bright, a nineteenth-century frontierswoman and family legend. But in so doing, she gets more than she bargains for and discovers Calico Bright in the unlikeliest of places. "The Return of Calico Bright" forces its protagonist to confront not only her own adolescent sorrows but the seamy underbelly of a nation's identity, in which racial hatred lurks in surprising places. The stakes are high and the outcome critical, but in the crucible of raw experience Callie emerges from her ancestor's heroic shadow in ways she never would have imagined.

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"Winkler's prose is textured and full-bodied, with a keen ear for nuances of dialect, and his Callie is a decidedly likable heroine - naive and hopeful enough to be duped, but wise and brave enough to confront injustice when it really matters." --"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" "Winkler propels overweight, socially invisible teenager Callie through a harrowing ride of selfhood...Readers will be amused, amazed, horrified, and, most of all, engrossed by the experiences of this seemingly ordinary 16-year-old." --"Booklist"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780374380489
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Publisher Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Height: 211 mm
  • No of Pages: 343
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 149 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0374380481
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 531 gr


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