Pub Date: April 6, 2009
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2007005074
Lexile Code: 0780
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.53" H x 7.64" L x 5.16" W ( 0.53 lbs) 240 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Death Grief Bereavement | Fantasy | General | Family | Parents | Girls and Women | Readers | Chapter Books | Ghost Stories | New Experience | Mysteries and Detective Stories | Strangers | Legends Myths Fables | Fairy Tales and Folklore | Adaptations
Description: Mixing spine-tingling chills with a deeply resonating story that explores grief, healing, and growth, this magical tale is of a girl grieving her mother, a town with a curse, and a mysterious apple seed given to the girl by someone she's never met.
Brief description:
K. L. GOING is the author of FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, a Michael L. Printz honor book, and THE LIBERATION OF GABRIEL KING, a southern middle grade novel. She's had many jobs, including assistant at a Manhattan literary agency and manager of an independent bookstore, but now she writes full-time. She lives in Glen Spey, New York.
Review Quotes:
"Believably and with delicacy, Going paints a suspenseful story suffused with the poignant questions of what it means to be alive, and what might wait on the other side."--The Horn Book "Symbolism abounds in this beautifully written book."--Booklist