The spirit of Cattail County / by Victoria Piontek.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 275 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781338167054
- 1338167057
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Piontek Victoria | Available | 33111008931293 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Piontek Victoria | Available | 33111009205903 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A heart-expanding, magical debut from one of the most exciting new voices in the grand tradition of southern literature.Sparrow doesn't have many friends. Some kids believe her house near the swamp is haunted. Others think there's something "unusual" about her. But Sparrow's not lonely -- she has a best friend who's always with her. He sits with Sparrow on her porch swing. He makes her smile by playing pranks in church. Yet Sparrow is the only one who can see him . . . because the Boy is a ghost. So when her mama passes away, Sparrow doesn't give up hope. After all, if the Boy can linger after death, then surely Mama can return as well. But the Boy has a secret of his own, one that Sparrow will need to uncover before the ghost will lead her to Mama. To solve the mystery, Sparrow joins forces with some unlikely allies -- Maeve and Johnny, siblings from a family of town outcasts --and Elena, a visiting child fortune-teller.With its loving depiction of small town life, and characters who feel like old friends, this magical debut will enchant you, dazzle you. . . and make you feel at home.
When her mother dies Sparrow is left with only an aunt for a relative, and no human friends, because most of the residents of the small town of Beulah find her "unusual" and think her house near the Everglades is haunted (which it is)--in fact Sparrow's only real friend is the Boy, an unusually solid-seeming ghost who accompanies her everywhere, but never speaks, and who has a secret which Sparrow will need to discover, perhaps with the help of a family of town outcasts and a child fortune-teller.