Juneberry Blue
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 18 Jun 2024
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- CHF 10.00
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- Pre-Order
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- CHF 10.00
Publisher Description
Taking inspiration from Sleeping Beauty and charming small towns, this contemporary magical realism novel includes a mistaken destiny, a dying town, and a determined ghost cat.
Eleven-year-old Andie Jennings, of Morning Glory, Virginia (population: 8), is set to inherit her family's magic on Midsummer's Eve. And Andie plans to use it to bring her dad home for good from his long-haul trucking job. Except her gift doesn’t come.
But when a see-through cat starts following her, Andie realizes she didn't fail to get her magic at all. Her gift just isn’t what anyone expected. Turns out, her new ability to communicate with the ghosts she can suddenly see may be the very thing that Morning Glory—and her own family—needs.
Inspired by storytelling and tales passed down through generations, Juneberry Blue celebrates the importance of listening to stories--and the people who tell them.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ransom (Only Margaret) takes cues from "Sleeping Beauty" in this story about an enchanted Southern town and the tween determined to revive it. Morning Glory, Va., has all but faded from maps since the Juneberry Blue soda factory closed. Only eight residents—including 11-year-old Andrea Jennings—remain. All that could change if Andie inherits her matrilineal family's flair for crafting life-changing recipes that feature juneberries from the nearby magic-touched orchard: a new, charmed dish could reignite tourism, generate much-needed business for the Jennings's failing diner, and maybe even bring Andie's truck-driving father home for good. But when her recipe flops, Andie discovers a far greater gift within: she can communicate with ghosts. After learning that the local spirits need her help with a locked tower and a mysterious stranger, Andie and pragmatic friend Tanner unravel secrets "scabbed with mold," and realize that anything worth doing needs intent, belief, effort, and faith. Sentient plants and otherworldly cats round out an amiable cast in this gently magical tale that centers nature, ecology, and connection. Characters read as white. Ages 8–12.
