a Ghost Saved Twelve-year-old Maddie's Life When She Was An Infant, Her Granny Lane Claims, So Maddie Must Always Remember That She Is Special. But It's Hard To Feel Special When You've Spent Your Life Shuffled From One Foster Home To Another. And Now That She's At The East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie Feels Even Less Special.
she Longs For A Place To Call Home. She Even Has A Book Of Houses In Which She Glues Pictures Of Places She'd Like To Live. Then One Day, A New Girl, Murphy, Shows Up At The Home Armed With Tales About Exotic Travels, Being Able Tot Fly, And Boys Who Recite Poetry To Wild Horses. When Murphy Offers Maddie Something She Has Never Had Before, Maddie Begins To Wonder If She Has Finally Found Someone Who feels Like Home.
publishers Weekly
this Quietly Affecting Novel Explores The Fragile Camaraderie Between Two 11-year-old Girls Who Are Placed In A Children's Home, Wrote Pw, Calling It A Celebration Of Friendship And Of The Healing Powers Of The Imagination. Ages 10-14. (sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Growing Up & Facts of Life
- Friendship, Social Skills & School Life
- Friendship
- Friendship, Social Skills & School Life
- Growing Up & Facts of Life
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Author : Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2004-09-01
Number Of Pages : 256
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0689870671
ISBN-13 : 9780689870675
Item weight : 0.5 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5 in x 7.5 in
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