by Polly Horvath · L'Ecole des Loisirs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782211075664
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«La saison des mûres» is a young adult novel by Polly Horvath, published by L'Ecole des Loisirs in paperback (305 pages, in French).
Raclette discovers she has relatives when her mother sends her to spend the summer in Maine with two elderly distant cousins, the twins Penpen and Tilly. In their isolated house, surrounded by woods and bears, she learns to swim in the sea, milk cows, and make blackberry coulis, in a shared life that helps her grow.
The novel was originally published as The Canning Season in 2003 and won the National Book Award that year. This French edition, translated by Hélène Misserly, appeared in 2008.
For readers aged 9 to 12 and for young adults interested in coming-of-age novels.
Polly Horvath is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults. She won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2010, Horvath received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.
