A rich story, written with grace and empathy, in which very real troubles are tempered with humor and love.
Description
Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Violet Downey Book Award
When Megan finds out why her mother is acting so odd, she is shocked and overwhelmed. Suddenly she is expected to welcome a new half-sister as part of the family.
This is a beautiful, compassionate novel that is both poignant and funny.
Pages120
Released1995
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGroundwood Books Ltd
ISBN9781554984718
SellerAnansi
About the author(s)
SARAH ELLIS is a celebrated author, teacher and children’s literature expert. She has written more than twenty books across the genres, and her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Danish, Chinese and Japanese. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award (Pick-Up Sticks), the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award (Odd Man Out) and the Sheila Egoff Award. Her first novel, The Baby Project, remains a children’s classic, still in print more than thirty years after publication.
Sarah is a masthead reviewer for the Horn Book Magazine, and she is a former faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Reviews
Vivid, fully realized and difficult to forget.
Ellis' handling of the family dynamics is quiet and sure and her characters...are fresh, appealing - and imperfect. No angst-filled drama here; instead readers get a solid, credible adjustment story.
