Crooked heart
(Large Print)
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
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Large Print
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417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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When Noel Bostock -- aged ten, no family -- is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge -- a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years and raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children, and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war's provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs and what she's never had is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team. Together they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to turn a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money off the war -- and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Evans, L. (2015). Crooked heart (Large Print edition.). Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Evans, Lissa. 2015. Crooked Heart. Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Evans, Lissa. Crooked Heart Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Evans, Lissa. Crooked Heart Large Print edition., Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
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