by Katherine Paterson · Editorial Galaxia, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471547606
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«A procura de Park» is the young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by Editorial Galaxia in paperback (172 pages, in Galician).
Park, an eleven-year-old boy who imagines King Arthur's knights, wants to know what his father, killed in the Vietnam War, was like. His search takes him to his grandfather's farm in Virginia, where he meets Thanh, a girl who provokes him, and discovers secrets that change his idea of his own family.
Part of the Árbore collection for ages 12 and up (no. 30); the English original, Park's Quest, was published in 1988. Nominated for the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 1990.
Recommended reading for young people aged 12 and up, especially for those who enjoy coming-of-age novels and family stories.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
