Anatomy of Lost Things
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 18 Jun 2024
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- 299,00 Kč
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- Pre-Order
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- 299,00 Kč
Publisher Description
A laugh-through-your-tears middle grade novel about what it’s like to lose something precious. For fans of the Three Rancheros series by Kate DiCamillo.
A necklace. A bugle. A lion statue. What do they have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing unless you’re Tildy, Leon, or Nell. These items matter an awful lot to them. Not because of what they are, but what—and who—they represent.
Anatomy of Lost Things shares the crisscrossing stories of Tildy, Leon, and Nell, of the impossible losses they’ve each recently faced, and the unexpected histories of their prized objects. Written with heartbreaking honesty and humor, this novel unfolds in the tender space that exists between staggering loss and the start of recovery, and it finds plenty of hope and laughter waiting there.
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The lives of three preteens in a small Maryland town intersect in this quirky novel about loss by Stout (The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle). Tildy, whose father owns an auction house, has lost the amber necklace that her mother—home after abandoning her family for 186 days—gave her, and cannot shake the fear that she will leave again unless Tildy finds it. Leon, raised by tavern-owning grandparents, is trying to regain the psychic powers he discovered after his grandfather's death so he can guide his grandmother in an important decision. Nell, randomly in town with her mother, who decided to flee in a camper after a hurricane destroyed their Florida home, is protesting her parent's actions while grieving the death of her other mother. Interwoven throughout the tweens' stories are the histories of objects important to them: Nell's late mother's bugle, Tildy's necklace, and a crooked brass candlestick Leon believes will help him communicate with his deceased grandfather. Folksy third-person prose renders the characters' alternating perspectives as well as varying digressions, making for a leisurely paced narrative that builds toward credible—including one fittingly offbeat—resolutions. All characters read as white. Ages 8–12.
