The great unexpected
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Creech
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240 pages
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English
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Level 4.3, 6 Points

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From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an "enchanting tale to treasure," The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination. Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairsof young Naomi and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged. Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in townlike Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealedthree locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boyand soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever. As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Creech, S. (2012). The great unexpected . HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Creech, Sharon. 2012. The Great Unexpected. HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Creech, Sharon. The Great Unexpected HarperCollins, 2012.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Creech, Sharon. The Great Unexpected HarperCollins, 2012.

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