Miles from Ordinary
β Scribed by Carol Lynch Williams
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group; St. Martin's Griffin
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1250002605
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers..." --Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby
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_Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control....
"No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams, and I mean no one," said James S. Jacobs, Professor of Children's Literature at Brigham Young University, of her breakout novel, The Chosen One....
β¦ Subjects
Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction
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