The Great Unexpected - Hardcover

Creech, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061892327 ISBN 13: 9780061892325

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012

Synopsis

From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an "enchanting tale to treasure," The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination.

Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs--of young Naomi and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged.

Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed--three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy--and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever.

As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.

About this title

Review:

"Sprightly and warm...very rewarding" (Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week)

"I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone." (Teen Titles)

"Gently timeless atmosphere...featherlight touch." (The Guardian)

"(Readers) will be constantly rewarded and surprised . . . The language here is exhilerating and amusing in its new-minted invention. 5 stars." (Books for Keeps)

"Creech's characters are endearing and her writing is a delight in this intriguing book. One of those stories that stays with you long after you have finished reading." (Booksellers' Choice, The Bookseller)

Book Description:

Celebrate the unexpected in Sharon Creech's latest novel, exquisitely illustrated with chapter head line drawings throughout.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061892327
• ISBN 13: 9780061892325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240