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Creech, Sharon

The Great Unexpected

226 pp. | HarperCollins/Cotler | September, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-189232-5 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-189233-2 $16.89
(2) 4-6 A strange boy falls out of a tree in Blackbird Tree, USA. Meanwhile, in Ireland, an old woman and her companion talk of murder and revenge. Connections and coincidences pile up; Creech keeps control of her material through her enormously sympathetic narrator, Naomi, painfully honest as she experiences the all-consuming-ness of first love. Though the lessons are overt, they're well worth learning.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2012

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