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Book, 2003
Current format, Book, 2003, , No Longer Available.
Book, 2003
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In a tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he has found, Michele has to draw strength from his own sense of humanity. A lyrical novel of a nine-year-old boy's experiences living in a small town in rural Italy follows young Michele Amitrano who makes a horrifying, momentous discovery in a dilapidated, uninhabited farmhouse that turns his life upside down. 25,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. In the summer of 1978 in a small Italian village, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano loses his innocence of childhood when he accidentally uncovers a dark secret being kept by the adults of Acqua Traverse.
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