Calvin
Martine Leavitt
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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Also available in format
Publisher:
Groundwood Books Ltd
Groundwood Books Ltd
DRM:
Open - No Protection
Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
2018
2018
ISBN-13:
9781773061603
Description:
<strong>Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — Text</strong><p>In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations.</p><p>As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture.</p><p>And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold…</p><p>The lake, it turns out, is more marvelous, and more treacherous, than Calvin had ever imagined — populated by abandoned cars (joy ride!), ice-fishing eccentrics, psychokiller snow beings, and a not-so-mythical sea witch named Jenny Greenteeth.</p><p>Not to mention the man-eating tiger that looms just out of his sight lines as he treks.</p><p>But the biggest surprise of all is that Calvin finds himself accompanied by Susie, the girl of his dreams. Or is it his dreams that have conjured up Susie?</p><p>Part romance, part adventure story, part quest novel, Martine Leavitt brings her inimitable gentle wit, humor and compassion to a story about a teenaged boy struggling to gain control of his own mind and destiny.</p>