Longing for Normal - Couverture souple

Pattison, Darcy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1629440426 ISBN 13 : 9781629440422

Editeur : Mims House, 2014

Synopsis

Everything in Eliot’s life—absolutely everything—depends on the amazing Bread Project.

He can’t let it fail. It means the difference between a forever family or going back to foster care.

Then Alli comes crashing into his life. She’s a scrawny girl who also needs a forever family. It’s an unlikely friendship based on uniting an immigrant community through bread recipes from across the world—pan dolce, ciabatti, ekmek, naan, pretzels, poori, pita, English muffins, raisin bread, cinnamon rolls, Kaiser rolls, potato rolls, and much more.

But a sourdough starter is a feeble weapon against the system.

The unlikely friendship grows as the sourdough starter is passed to new students. In a pyramid scheme, each student should have starter by Thanksgiving. The goal is a huge bake sale to fund a new playground.

As the bake sale approaches, Eliot and Alli encourage the community to come together, even as their lives are falling apart. Their forever homes seem like an unreachable dream.

All they have left is hope—and a 150-year-old sourdough starter.

Read this story of courage and love.

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About the Author

At family gatherings, Darcy Pattison was known for baking great breads until she discovered she needed a gluten-free diet. Now she only bakes bread in her stories. Published in eight languages, her middle grade novels include: Saucy and Bubba: A Hansel and Gretel Tale; The Girl, the Gypsy and the Gargoyle; and Vagabonds: An Ozark Tale. Recent nature books for children include: Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub; Wisdom, the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and Other Disasters for Over 60 Years, a Starred Review in Publisher’s Weekly; Desert Baths (Arbordale), an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2013; and, Prairie Storms (Arbordale). Her series, The ALIEN, INC. CHAPTER BOOK SERIES includes Kell, the Alien; Kell and the Horse Apple Parade; Kell and the Giants; and Kell and the Detectives. For more, see darcypattison.com/about

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mims House
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1629440426
• ISBN 13: 9781629440422
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 219
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg