Cindy Baldwin
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English
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Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwin's debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother's mental illness. When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it's happening again--that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is...
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"It's been eighty-three days since Annie Lee's daddy died, but she still sees reminders of him everywhere. His record player mysteriously plays his favorite songs, there's shaving cream in the sink every morning, and the TV keeps flipping to the Duke basketball games he loved. She knows Mama notices it too, but Mama's been working around the clock to make ends meet. To make matters worse, Annie Lee's friends ditched her over the summer. She feels...
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English
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Ivy Mae Bloom is almost thirteen years old, her name is almost a complete sentence, and her family's RV is almost a home. Ivy desperately wants a place to put down roots, but it's her mama's job as a fallen star to tend the magic underpinning the world--a job that's kept Ivy's family living on the road since before Ivy was born. After Ivy steals Mama's entire supply of wish jars in the hopes of finding a place to call home, disaster strands her family...
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HarperCollins Italia
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Italiano
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Quando vede la mamma scavare furiosamente i semini neri da un'anguria nel bel mezzo della notte mentre parla con persone che non esistono, Della si rende conto che sta succedendo di nuovo. Che la malattia che ha costretto sua madre in ospedale quattro anni prima è tornata. Che finirà di nuovo in ospedale per mesi come l'ultima volta. Mentre suo padre si dedica al lavoro nell'azienda agricola di famiglia, che è in difficoltà a causa della siccità,...
