I AM THE MESSENGER
Markus Zusak
Ed Kennedy is an underage Australian cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's whenthe first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission? For a review of I Am the Messenger, click here. -- Goodreads.com Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak was born in 1975 and is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief. First released in 2005, The Book Thief spent 375 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. His first three books, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, and When Dogs Cry (also known as Getting the Girl), released between 1999 and 2001, were all published internationally and garnered numerous awards and honors in his native Australia, and the USA. The Messenger (or I Am the Messenger), published in 2002, won the 2003 Australian Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award (Older Readers) and the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Award (Ethel Turner Prize), as well as receiving a Printz Honour in America. It is The Book Thief, however, that has established Markus Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia. Markus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children. -- Random House |
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“If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger |