Pub Date: March 13, 2007
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0780
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.50" H x 7.50" L x 5.10" W ( 0.30 lbs) 224 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | SelfEsteem and SelfReliance | Family | Multigenerational | Performing Arts | Theater and Musicals | Girls and Women | Siblings | Strangers | Violence | Bedtime and Dreams | Boys and Men | Imagination and Play | School and Education
Description: His family calls Leo "fog boy." He's always dreaming, always replaying things in his brain, and fantasizing about who he is in order to discover who he will become. In the play that is his life, Leo is eager to discover what part will be his in this latest work from a Newbery Medalist, now in paperback.
Brief description:
Sharon Creech has written twenty-one books for young people and is published in over twenty languages. Her books have received awards in both the U.S. and abroad, including the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and Great Britain's Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.
Before beginning her writing career, Sharon Creech taught English for fifteen years in England and Switzerland. She lives in Maine, "lured there by my grandchildren," Creech says.
www.sharoncreech.com
Review Quotes:
"A warm, funny, philosophical novel." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)