Книга: Porter Sarah «Lost Voices»

Lost Voices

Производитель: "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt"

Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in - all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives. Luce is thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: the mermaids feel an uncontrollable desire to drown seafarers, using their enchanted voices to lure ships into the rocks. Luce possesses an extraordinary singing talent, which makes her important to the tribe - she may even have a shot at becoming their queen. However her struggle to retain her humanity puts her at odds with her new friends. Will Luce be pressured into committing mass murder? The first book in a trilogy, Lost Voices is a captivating and wildly original tale about finding a voice, the healing power of friendship, and the strength it takes to forgive.

Издательство: "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" (2011)

ISBN: 978-0-547-48250-7

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Porter, Sarah

▪ American educator
born Aug. 16, 1813, Farmington, Conn., U.S.
died Feb. 17, 1900, Farmington

      American educator and founder of Miss Porter's School, still one of the leading preparatory schools for girls in the United States.

      Porter was a younger sister of Noah Porter, later president of Yale College. She was educated at the Farmington Academy, where she was the only girl student, and at age 16 she became an assistant teacher in the school. She studied privately under a Yale Latin professor (1832–33) and for several years studied on her own while teaching in schools in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

      In 1843 Porter opened her own school in Farmington. For many years she was the only teacher at Miss Porter's School, but her intellectual curiosity had fitted her to teach Latin, French, German, chemistry, natural science, mathematics, history, geography, and music, in addition to the basic subjects. The school thus had a reputation for academic excellence almost unique among girls' schools of the day. Porter also encouraged healthful exercise, and she was deeply concerned with the character development of all her charges.

      As the school grew rapidly, Porter acquired new facilities to keep pace, although she took care to limit the student body to about 100. In later years she hired additional teachers, but she continued to teach her chosen subjects until just a few years before her death in 1900.

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Источник: Porter, Sarah

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