Boy on the edge / Fridrik Erlings.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Icelandic Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2012Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 219 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780763666804 Uniform titles: Bróðir Lúsifer. English Subject(s): Teenage boys -- Iceland -- Juvenile fiction | Iceland -- Juvenile fictionSummary: "Henry can't read. He stutters and has a clubfoot. And one day, in a violent fit of anger, he lashes out at the only family he has -- his mother. Sent to live with other troubled boys at the Home of Lesser Brethren, an isolated farm perched in the craggy lava fields along the unforgiving Icelandic coast, Henry finds a precarious contentment among the cows. But the manic preacher who runs the home is not content, and as he tries to reshape the farm in his image, he will change the lives of every boy who lives there in unexpected ways," -- Book Jacket.
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Translation of: Bróðir Lúsifer.
"Henry can't read. He stutters and has a clubfoot. And one day, in a violent fit of anger, he lashes out at the only family he has -- his mother. Sent to live with other troubled boys at the Home of Lesser Brethren, an isolated farm perched in the craggy lava fields along the unforgiving Icelandic coast, Henry finds a precarious contentment among the cows. But the manic preacher who runs the home is not content, and as he tries to reshape the farm in his image, he will change the lives of every boy who lives there in unexpected ways," -- Book Jacket.
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