Over the WaterFourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where she and her family live and in their former Ireland home, until a visit to her Irish relatives helps her gain a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself. |
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Page 149
... screams of peo- ple whose skin and flesh is burning are tearing at my brain . Fever is sweeping through the ship like fire . I claw at the driftwood bobbing in the water near me ... screaming - the screaming hasn't stopped Twenty-nine ...
... screams of peo- ple whose skin and flesh is burning are tearing at my brain . Fever is sweeping through the ship like fire . I claw at the driftwood bobbing in the water near me ... screaming - the screaming hasn't stopped Twenty-nine ...
Page 150
Maude Casey, Katherine Paterson. glow . And the screaming - the screaming hasn't stopped ! My skin begins to prickle ... screams coming from that blaze are human ; there can be no doubt about that . I start to cry , in fear and horror ...
Maude Casey, Katherine Paterson. glow . And the screaming - the screaming hasn't stopped ! My skin begins to prickle ... screams coming from that blaze are human ; there can be no doubt about that . I start to cry , in fear and horror ...
Page 151
... screams is writhing and curdling in spine - chilling waves . It sounds exactly like a human being under torture , un- speakable torture . We work there for hours . Long after the sow's screaming abruptly stops , we work . I am shaking ...
... screams is writhing and curdling in spine - chilling waves . It sounds exactly like a human being under torture , un- speakable torture . We work there for hours . Long after the sow's screaming abruptly stops , we work . I am shaking ...
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