Magenta McPhee
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
A classically heartwarming Catherine Bateson story, reissued with a stunning new cover
For Magenta McPhee, life is good. It would be almost perfect if she could sort out her dad, who quite possibly needs saving - from himself.Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures involve identity fraud on a dating site, and replying, as your father, to emails he doesn't even know he's been getting.But when pretending to be someone else is taking you away from your life's purpose - writing the next great fantasy novel - things might have gone too far.In MAGENTA MCPHEE, Catherine Bateson has once again created a cast of delightfully real characters who will stay in the reader's memory long after the last page is turned.
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With a personality as colorful as her name, Bateson's (Being Bee) eponymous heroine has a narrative voice that is smart, wry, and down-to-earth. Splitting her time between the homes of her divorced parents, 12-year-old Magenta leaps in to help them sort out their lives. Her mother is trying to piece together the particulars of her upcoming wedding, a process that can strain Magenta's patience. A higher priority is bolstering the spirits of her father, who has lost his job, is on an antitechnology kick, and spends his days holed up in the library. She and her best friend an aspiring witch nearly as spunky as Magenta create an online dating profile for him, which leads to some amusing but also affecting scenes. Magenta uses her real life, including her crush on an older boy, as fodder for a romantic medieval fantasy she is writing ( I wasn't sure what a parapet was. I googled it.... Perhaps a garden would have been a better place for them to make out ), and excerpts from it add a fanciful dimension to this real and ultimately reassuring story. Ages 8 12.
