Growing Wings - Softcover

Laurel Winter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547249047 ISBN 13: 9780547249049

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2010

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 208 Publisher: Sandpiper Linnet WAITED with her eyes closed for the door to open and her mother to PEEK in Waited for her to touch Linnet's shoulder Blades Lightly ... Linnet knew that touch in her bones. as if it had happened every night of her life. An imprint. a memory of the skin itself. So begins this startling first novel about an eleven-year-old girl who suddenly begins to grow wings-wings with soft auburn feathers . which only at first can be hidden with long hair and loose clothes. Funny. sad. and hopeful. this remarkable story captures a girl's shock at feeling alone in life. as it follows her journey to answer a most important question: how can a girl with wings ever fit into the world When wings start to appear on her back. eleven-year-old Linnet begins to understand some of her mother's strange behavior. but it isn't until she fi...

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Product Description:

Linnet waited with her eyes closed for the door to open and her mother to peek in. Waited for her to touch Linnet's shoulder blades lightly...Linnet knew that touch in her bones, as if it had happened every night of her life. An imprint, a memory of the skin itself."So begins this startling first novel about an eleven-year-old girl who suddenly begins to grow wings -- wings with soft auburn feathers, which only at first can be hidden with long hair and loose clothes. Funny, sad, and hopeful, this remarkable story captures a girl's shock at feeling alone in life, as it follows her journey to answer a most important question: how can a girl with wings ever fit into the world?

Review:

"A fast-paced and suspenseful fantasy." (School Library Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547249047
• ISBN 13: 9780547249049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208