📗 Libro en inglés THE ADVENTURES OF FLASH JACKSON

''On my very last day of being 16 years old, I fell through the roof of our barn and broke my leg in three places. I was just in a climbing mood I guess - the kind of mood that can overtake a girl sometimes on a hot July day, thinking that if something glamorous doesn''t happen soon, right that minute, she''d go crazy.'' Meet the unforgettable Haley Bombauer - a truly offbeat and endearing heroine - as she teeters on the brink of womanhood...Haley, also known as ''Flash Jackson'', seems doomed to spend the summer in a cast, absolutely bored out of her skull. But in a strange twist of fate, Haley''s ''imprisonment'' gives her peculiar grandmother the chance finally to see what the girl is made of - and maybe pass on to her some of the mysterious and mystical arts that only she knows. As Haley comes to understand just who her grandmother is, and what the old woman can teach her, she is transformed - from tomboy to extraordinary woman…