Springstubb Tricia - Moonpenny Island - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Readers of Kate Di Camillo and Sheila Turnage will love Moonpenny Island a middle grade novel of friendship and secrets by the beloved and acclaimed Tricia Springstubb. Moonpenny is a tiny island in a great lake. When the summer people leave and the ferries stop running just the tried - and - true islanders are left behind. Flor and her best her perfect friend Sylvie are the only eleven - year - olds for miles and miles and Flor couldn t be happier. But come the end of summer unthinkable things begin to happen. Sylvie is suddenly mysteriously whisked away to school on the mainland. Flor's mother leaves to take care of Flor's sick grandmother and doesn t come back. Her big sister has a secret and Flor fears it's a dangerous one. Meanwhile a geologist and his peculiar daughter arrive to excavate prehistoric trilobites one of the first creatures to develop sight. Soon Flor is helping them. As her own ability to see her life on this little lump of limestone evolves she faces truths about those she loves and about herself she never imagined.
Title: Moonpenny Island
Author(s): Springstubb Tricia, Gilbert Ford
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062112941
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/7/2016