Título: Nobody's Girl
Autor: Sarra Manning
Sinopse: Bea thinks she's the most boring seventeen-year-old in the world. She's not pretty or popular or funny, unlike her mother who had Bea when she was 17. The only glamorous thing about Bea is the French father who left before she was born and lives in Paris. She yearns for la vie Parisienne every moment of her dull existence. So when Ruby Davies, the leader of her school's most elite clique picks Bea as her new best friend and asks her to go on holiday with them, she's wary but delighted. If nothing else it's two weeks away from her over-protective mother. But when the gang arrive in Spain, Bea is crushed to realise that Ruby and her posse have simply been using her. Bea wreaks vengeance on her so-called friends, and plans to decamp to Paris to find her father. But when she falls asleep on the train and wakes up in Bilbao, she meets a group of American students who are backpacking around Europe and bonds with them straight away, especially the gorgeous Toph who helps heals Bea's hurting heart. Though Bea has a shock in store when they finally get to Paris. The 'City of Lovers' really works it magic on Bea and Toph who spend a week wandering the sun-dappled streets of Paris, talking, holding hands and falling in love. When it comes time to go home to confront her Mum about her mysterious father, the new version of Bea is determined that she'll never go back to her old, boring way of life - she's no longer Nobody's Girl; she belongs to herself and to Toph... But with an ocean between them, will he wait for her?
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Nobody’s Girl”, de Sarra Manning, publicado pela editora Hodder Children's Books, em 2010 e com 384 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Hodder Children's Books
Páginas: 384
Ano: 2010
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0340883731
ISBN13: 9780340883730
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Hodder Children's Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura que varia entre aventuras intensas e narrativas de amadurecimento com forte apelo emocional. O catálogo traz histórias que transitam entre mundos fantásticos, como academias misteriosas e universos de magia, e relatos mais próximos da realidade, incluindo temas contemporâneos como amizade, identidade e desafios sociais. O tom pode ser ora tenso e dramático, ora leve e humorado, com ritmo que privilegia tanto a ação quanto o desenvolvimento dos personagens. As sinopses sugerem uma atenção especial a conflitos pessoais e relacionamentos complexos, frequentemente explorados em contextos juvenis.
