num_pages: 290
description: Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is a bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Now Quinn presents an extraordinarysequel, a companion novel so startlingly original that even Ishmael's most faithful readers will not predict its outcome.... When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with "an earnestdesire to save the world," he does not expect a child to answer him. But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael's reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to takeher on as his next student. Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax--nor can he hope for the same outcome. But youngJulie proves that she is ready to forge her own spiritual path--and arrive at her own destination. And when the time comes to choose a pupil to carry out his greatest mission yet, Ishmael makes a daringdecision--a choice that just might change the world. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
title: My Ishmael
titlecomplete: My Ishmael
genres: Literature, Education, Animals, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Environment, Fiction, Spirituality, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 9937
series: Ishmael 
publisher: Bt Bound