Shadow (Collector’s Edition) - Hardcover

Morpurgo, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007484690 ISBN 13: 9780007484690

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2012

Synopsis

Luxury hardback collector’s edition of a powerful, moving novel by the best-selling author of War Horse.

This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words – a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war.

When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed – it is not customary for people to keep dogs as pets in his part of the world. But when Aman and his mother finally decide to make a bid for freedom, the dog Aman has called Shadow will not leave their side.

Soon it becomes clear: the destinies of boy and dog are linked, and always will be...

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Morpurgo, a Member of the Order of the British Empire, is the author of over 100 children's books, including An Elephant in the Garden. His recent bestseller here and in Britain, War Horse, debuted on Broadway in 2011, and is now a film by Steven Spielberg.

From Booklist:

After six years in Manchester, England, Matt’s best friend and soccer buddy, Aman, 14, is denied asylum. Now Aman is held in a crowded prison with his broken mother, awaiting deportation and terrified of being sent back to the brutality in Afghanistan. Aman tells his story to Matt’s grandfather, including the horror he and his mother left behind: his father and grandfather were murdered, and his mother was tortured by the Taliban before their desperate journey across the border to Iran, Turkey, France, and finally England, where they joined Aman’s uncle. Now they are being sent back. Morpurgo humanizes the asylum story through one refugee boy’s viewpoint. The heartbreak, brutality, and loss are intensified through the crucial role of a stray dog that comes to Aman in a cave and then never leaves him (hence the name Shadow). He turns out to be a champion army dog that saves the refugees, and the animal story, along with the personal war survival drama, is heartrending. Grades 6-9. --Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007484690
• ISBN 13: 9780007484690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288