Julia and the Hand of God

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Ill
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and the Hand of God
by Eleanor Cameron illustrated by Gail Owens
Whenever Julia Redf ern v^ent to meet Uncle Hugh in San Francisco, she thought of earthquakes, and the day of her eleventh birthday was no exception. In the midst of the elegant lunch her uncle never failed to provide, she had to hear once again the story of how he survived what her grandmother had called "the Hand of God laying low the wicked city."
That was the lunch at which Hugh presented her with the richly bound volume of blank pages for her to fill— her Book of Strangenesses. And this is the story of some of the things that would go into that book: sad, funny, eventful happenings with old friends and new that weave a memorable pattern.
Readers who have already met an older Julia in A Room Made of Windows will enjoy knowing her better; others will find this a perfect introduction to a most engaging heroine.
Books by Eleanor Cameron include:
The Court of the Stone Children Winner of the 1974... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Ill
m:' i'
and the Hand of God
by Eleanor Cameron illustrated by Gail Owens
Whenever Julia Redf ern v^ent to meet Uncle Hugh in San Francisco, she thought of earthquakes, and the day of her eleventh birthday was no exception. In the midst of the elegant lunch her uncle never failed to provide, she had to hear once again the story of how he survived what her grandmother had called "the Hand of God laying low the wicked city."
That was the lunch at which Hugh presented her with the richly bound volume of blank pages for her to fill— her Book of Strangenesses. And this is the story of some of the things that would go into that book: sad, funny, eventful happenings with old friends and new that weave a memorable pattern.
Readers who have already met an older Julia in A Room Made of Windows will enjoy knowing her better; others will find this a perfect introduction to a most engaging heroine.
Books by Eleanor Cameron include:
The Court of the Stone Children Winner of the 1974 National Book Award in Children's Books
"Within the confines of a carefully plotted narrative, the book embodies certain humane and intellectual values of peculiar importance to our time. This story, in which past and present intersect, reveals the search two young people make to discover the basis of their own emerging personalities. Eleanor Cameron has written with style, grace and genuine artistry." —Judges' Citation
To the Green Mountains
Finalist for the 1976 National Book
Award in Children's Books
"An intense remembrance of things past, this novel flows through rich description, complex adult interaction, and probing examination of smalltown southern Ohio life during World War I. . . ." -ALA Booklist
. . This is surely the best of Eleanor Cameron's realistic fiction."
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Vissza