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I Am the Messenger
By Zusak, Markus
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37583-099-0 978-0-37593-099-7
- Publisher
- Knopf
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2005
Gr 9-Up Nineteen-year-old cabbie Ed Kennedy has little in life to be proud of: his dad died of alcoholism, and he and his mom have few prospects for success. He has little to do except share a run-down apartment with his faithful yet smelly dog, drive his taxi, and play cards and drink with his amiable yet similarly washed-up friends. Then, after he stops a bank robbery, Ed begins receiving anonymous messages marked in code on playing cards in the mail, and almost immediately his life begins to swerve off its beaten-down path. U...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2005
Ed Kennedy is the messenger. Days after surprising even himself by halting a bungled bank robbery, Ed receives a playing card in the mail—an ace of diamonds with three addresses written on it. As he visits each location, the aimless nineteen-year-old cabbie discovers troubled occupants in desperate need of assistance, including an abused wife and a lonely widow. Drawn to help (he runs the abusive husband out of town a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
