
Snow Bound
Harry Mazer(Author)
Bantam Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. December 1974
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-440-96134-5 (ISBN)
Description
At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach them a lesson by running off in his mother's old Plymouth. Driving without a license in the middle of a severe snowstorm, he picks up a hitchhiker named Cindy Reichert, an aloof girl who has always had difficulty forming friendships. To impress Cindy, Tony tries to show off his driving skills and ends up wrecking the car in a very desolated area far from the main highway. After spending precious days bickering with each other and waiting for rescue that never comes, they finally realize that their lives are at stake and they must cooperate to survive. The question is--can they survive?
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
US School Grade: Seventh Grade and over, Interest Age: From 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (mass)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
77 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-440-96134-5 (9780440961345)
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Person
Harry Mazer’s The Last Mission is drawn closely from his experiences as a seventeen-year-old in the Army Air Corps. Like Jack, he was a Jewish boy from the Bronx full of fantasies about heroism, and like Jack, he became a waist gunner and never fired his guns. Mazer was also the editor of Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns with contributing stories from Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Richard Peck, and other well-known authors to create a riveting collection of short fiction that explores the emotion-driven world of guns.