To Take a Dare - Softcover

Dragonwagon, Crescent; Zindel, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631680285 ISBN 13: 9781631680281

Publisher: Graymalkin Media, 2016

Synopsis

A teenage runaway encounters both love and loneliness when she decides to settle in a small Arkansas town.

About this title

About the Author:

Crescent Dragonwagon is the James Beard Award winning author of seven cookbooks, including "Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook", "Passionate Vegetarian", and, most recently, "The Cornbread Gospels". She is also a contributing editor to "Relish" magazine and has appeared on" Good Morning America", "Today" and NPR s "The Splendid Table". She lives, grows, and cooks her beans on a farm in Putney, Vermont.

Paul Zindel (1936-2003) was born and raised on Staten Island in New York. After teaching high school science for several years, he decided to pursue a career as a playwright. His first play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shortly thereafter, he wrote his first novel for young adults, The Pigman, which has gone on to sell millions of copies. Mr. Zindel wrote more than fifty books over the course of his life, including the popular My Darling, My Hamburger; The Pigman s Legacy, a sequel to The Pigman; and the autobiographical The Pigman and Me.

From the Inside Flap:

The day Chrysta Perretti runs away from her crazy parents in Benton, Illinois, she feels she's angry enough to stay on the road forever. But two years later, when the car she's in suddenly breaks down in a small Arkansas town, Chrysta's road fever dies too, and something new is born: something tells her that it's possible to start over and she doesn't have to be alone. In Excelsior Springs, Chrysta comes to learn the power of lasting friendships, for it is because of her newfound friends that she just might survive a dark, unexpected, and dangerous new episode in her life. Crescent Dragonwagon and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Zindel explore what happens when a thirteen-year-old runaway dares to stop running and learns to face the good and the bad in herself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Graymalkin Media
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1631680285
• ISBN 13: 9781631680281
• Binding: Paperback