Ergebnis für "The Old House" in Coming of Age

When her 12-year-old son, Noah, gets expelled from school just weeks before Christmas, recently widowed Charlotte is at a loss. With nowhere else to turn, feeling defeated and alone, she’s drawn to her mother-in-law, Dot and her country store in the small town of St Martins. What starts as a desperate attempt to regain control soon becomes an unexpected season of healing, connection, and rediscovering the magic of the holidays, at The Old Mill.

A CLASSIC COMING-OF-AGE STORY WHICH HAS HELD GENERATIONS OF READERS SPELLBOUND Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from...

Yo tenía nueve años y vivíamos todavía en Rumanía, en un pueblo pequeño al bo rde de la montaña. Recuerdo el frío, la ropa congelada, el olor a leña y las brasas del fuego apagándose en la estufa, pero sobre todo recuerdo la pobreza. Allí aprendí el significado de la supervivencia, hasta que una noche de mayo mi madre me susurró unas palabras que cambiarían mi vida para siempre: «Cuando seas mayor entenderás por qué nos fuimos».