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The Resource The greats., Deborah Ellis
The greats., Deborah Ellis
Resource Information
The item The greats., Deborah Ellis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The greats., Deborah Ellis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
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- Summary
- Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night - so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store? Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living? Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenaged boy - who claims to be his great-great-grandfather ... Meanwhile, across town, the pride of Guyana, the life-sized exhibit of a giant prehistoric sloth named Gather, disappears overnight from the Guyana National Museum. While museum officials argue over who is responsible for the disappearance and who is in charge of getting the sloth back, only Mrs. Simson, a museum cleaner, seems to understand what needs to be done. And so begins a strange and marvelous journey, as Jomon is sentenced to a youth detention facility, and a succession of his dead grandfathers appears, each one of them a suicide victim. As the grandfathers argue among themselves and blame each other for their own fates, they keep a watch out for Jomon, to try to make sure he does not continue their family tradition. In this short, fable-like story, Deborah Ellis comes at the timely and difficult issue of child suicide with restraint, compassion, and freshness, as the grandfathers overcome their own fraught histories to help their grandson, who in the end is aided by the appearance of a wondrous giant rodent, busy enjoying her own return to earthly existence
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9781773063881
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- Label
- The greats.
- Title
- The greats.
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Ellis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night - so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store? Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living? Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenaged boy - who claims to be his great-great-grandfather ... Meanwhile, across town, the pride of Guyana, the life-sized exhibit of a giant prehistoric sloth named Gather, disappears overnight from the Guyana National Museum. While museum officials argue over who is responsible for the disappearance and who is in charge of getting the sloth back, only Mrs. Simson, a museum cleaner, seems to understand what needs to be done. And so begins a strange and marvelous journey, as Jomon is sentenced to a youth detention facility, and a succession of his dead grandfathers appears, each one of them a suicide victim. As the grandfathers argue among themselves and blame each other for their own fates, they keep a watch out for Jomon, to try to make sure he does not continue their family tradition. In this short, fable-like story, Deborah Ellis comes at the timely and difficult issue of child suicide with restraint, compassion, and freshness, as the grandfathers overcome their own fraught histories to help their grandson, who in the end is aided by the appearance of a wondrous giant rodent, busy enjoying her own return to earthly existence
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
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- Ellis, Deborah
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Young Adult Fiction
- Young Adult Literature
- Label
- The greats., Deborah Ellis
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- online resource
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- Color
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- Control code
- ODN0005540886
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781773063881
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 859C673D-AD50-4148-BB50-9414A9B36DD1
- Label
- The greats., Deborah Ellis
- Link
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- online resource
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- cr
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- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ODN0005540886
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781773063881
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 859C673D-AD50-4148-BB50-9414A9B36DD1
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