Bibliograph

Awake in the world, Jason Gurley

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Awake in the world, Jason Gurley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

12-15 years old

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Awake in the world

Responsibility statement

Jason Gurley

Summary

Off the coast of the small California town of Orilla del Cielo, the silhouettes of oil rigs loom. To Zach, they are a reminder of loss - his father, an oil worker, drowned years earlier. With his family struggling to make ends meet, Zach feels he's destined for the same bleak future. Then he meets Vanessa, an optimistic girl from a wealthy family whose sights are literally set on the stars. Inspired by her idol, Carl Sagan, she plans on studying astronomy at Cornell. But as oil prospectors in search of black gold know, the future is uncertain... and fortunes can always be flipped

Target audience

adolescent

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