by Martha Brooks · Editorial Luis Vives (Edelvives) · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426380906
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«Mistik Lake» is the young adult novel by Martha Brooks published by Editorial Luis Vives (Edelvives) in 2011, in hardcover (244 pages, in Spanish).
When Sally is sixteen, a car full of teenagers sinks beneath the ice of Mistik Lake and only she survives. Years later, her daughter Odella lives with the secrets of that broken family: her mother drinks and eventually abandons the home. The arrival of Jimmy, who dreams of flying fish, helps Odella unravel the truth and find her own path.
Translation by Frank Schleper. Part of the Nueva Narrativa collection from Edelvives. In 2008 the novel won the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award.
Aimed at young readers aged 13 and up, with a realistic story about the weight of family secrets and the possibility of rebuilding one's own life.
Martha Ruth Brooks is a Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002.
