Before Wings A Novel Author:Beth Goobie Before Wings Beth Goobie CLA Book of the Year for Young Adults Mr. Christie's Book Award Silver Seal Winner Saskatchewan Book Award for Children's Literature PSLA YA Best Books List 2004 ALA Michael Printz Award Nominee Governor General's Literary Award nominee 2001 YALSA Teens' Top Ten Books nominee 2001 Sunburst Award nominee 2001 Teen To... more »p Ten YA Galley project nominee ALA Best Books nominee 2002 Resource Links' Year's Best 2000 CCBC Our Choice Starred selection Snow Willow Award nominee 2002-2003 ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2005 By confronting the past, Adrien learns to understand and accept the present. The spirits were moaning, a low sound that seemed to be calling the storm toward the beach where Adrien came to a halt, pushing to stay erect in the wind. She was sure the spirits were calling something specific? short phrase, several words, repeated like the lightning that snaked in the sky. Another sheer burst of white and Adrien stepped forward into the wild lake, the call of the spirit girls, the energy of their brains dying across the sky. Into some understood sameness. Having barely survived a brain aneurysm two years earlier, fifteen-year-old Adrien, working at her Aunt Erin's summer camp, is caught between the land of the living and the spirit world, unsure where she belongs. As she struggles to understand the message delivered by the spirits of the five young women that only she sees, she learns of the tragic consequences of their connection to her aunt. Faced with the knowledge that another aneurysm could strike her at any time and mostly shunned by the other staff because she is the boss's niece, Adrien finds a soulmate in Paul, the camp handyman, who is convinced that he has seen his own death foretold. Before Wings is an ambitious, beautifully written novel that dares to explore territory seldom tackled in teen fiction. In Adrien, author Beth Goobie has created a memorable character - intelligent, strong, irreverent, stubborn, funny, independent, fragile - who learns to confront the reality of her own death and to "believe in life." Beth Goobie is the award-winning author of fourteen books of fiction, poetry and drama.« less
ISBN-13: 9781551431611 ISBN-10: 1551431610 Pages:203 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: