by Elizabeth Laird · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330398039
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«Jake's Tower» is the young adult novel by Elizabeth Laird, published by Macmillan Children's Books in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Jake is never safe at home: he lives in fear of his mother's violent boyfriend. To escape, he takes refuge in an imaginary tower where he invents his father, the man who held him at birth, gave him a toy duck, and disappeared. Although Jake believes dreams don't come true, sometimes they do in unexpected ways.
Published in July 2002. The cover indicates the work was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
For readers aged 9 to 11 looking for realistic fiction about family and overcoming difficult situations.
Elizabeth Laird is a British writer of children's fiction and travel. She is also known for the large body of folktales which she collected from the regions of Ethiopia. Her books have been translated into at least twenty languages.
