Gwen Bainbridge’s mother ran away five years ago. Gwen is lonely, but she knows she can’t really trust anyone not since her so-called best friend Anisha turned on her during the summer. Despite herself, Gwen feels drawn to Clara, who is a breath of fresh air in a
Gwen Bainbridge’s mother ran away five years ago. Gwen is lonely, but she knows she can’t really trust anyone not since her so-called best friend Anisha turned on her during the summer. Despite herself, Gwen feels drawn to Clara, who is a breath of fresh air in a school full of posers. At least, that’s what she thinks until she meets Clara. But how is Gwen supposed to invite a girl like Clara home for dinner with her dad and Leon, her dad’s boyfriend? Gwen discovers that true friendship is a two-way street. Every night, Gwen pulls the cards from their hiding spot and chants a spell that will take her to her mother. Now Gwen is receiving postcards from her that promise a reunion postcards with French stamps and no return address. It means being there for Clara, too, and taking the risks involved in opening her heart to another person.
The author reveals her heroine's complex system of defenses while planting enough clues about Gwen's past to explain the cause of her pain. Ages 10-12. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Pushed and prodded by Clara, Gwen slowly reveals parts of herself that she meant to keep hidden and, when doing so, comes to realize she isn't the only one carrying disturbing secrets. However, a new girl named Clara is just as determined to be Gwen's best friend. Each night she builds a box out of the postcards that she has received from her five-year-absent mother and wishes she were somewhere else in Europe with her mother or inside her house of cards instead of being stuck at home with her father. Eloquent first-person narrative traces the gradual change Gwen undergoes as she learns to reach outward to find love and acceptance. In this tender story about friendship and family, Withrow (Bat Summer) slowly unravels the secrets that have caused Gwen to retreat into a private world of postcards, dreams and denial. Adolescents are sure to relate to the protagonist's self-Sure, the mini-kitchens have organic bananas, and pistachios that stressed slobby software engineers neither have to shell, nor leave a pile of shells littered all around the floor but in reality they are shackled to an oar, pulling to the endless beat of a drum. I was there and experienced many of the same corporate events and milestones myself. Every night she builds a box of postcards her 5 year absent mother has sent her, chanting a spell to get her to where her mother is. With this book, the people who know will show you how a malicious hacker will slip through the cracks between you systems.As an owner of dozens of IT security books, this is one that gets a space where I can easily access it and read it again and again.Forget the Freddy vs. So I'll keep it and enjoy the reading.. Sure, there are plenty of free tools available to do nearly every job; but how much time do you have to set them all up, tune them, reconfigure and update as needed and review the output? I know we would need to up our IT security labor budget 1000% to cover all of this.Chances are, this book is going to open your eyes to the way you think an intru- Title : Box Girl
- Author : Sarah Withrow
- Rating : 4.70 (731 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-12-1
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 184 Pages
- Asin : 0888994362
- Language : English
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