Signs and Wonders - Hardcover

Collins, Pat Lowery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395971195 ISBN 13: 9780395971192

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

Synopsis

A funny and moving tale, completely told through letters, follows the life-changing metamorphosis undergone by fourteen-year-old Taswell, a lonely boarding school girl desperate to find love and a caring family. A first novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Lowery Collins lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she writes, paints and illustrates full-time. She was born and raised in Hollywood and received her B.A. in English from the University of Southern California. She is an award winning poet and author, having written a number of young adult novels including The Fattening Hut (Houghton, 2003), Just Imagine (Houghton, 2001), and Signs and Wonders (Houghton, 1999), as well as the picture book Tomorrow, Up and Away (Houghton, 1990). To learn more about Pat Lowery Collins, visit her website at www.patlowerycollins.com.

Synopsis:

In a series of letters, a fourteen-year-old convent school student who never knew her mother and resents her father, grapples with her belief that God has chosen her to give birth to a prophet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395971195
• ISBN 13: 9780395971192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176