{"product_id":"great-unexpected-book-sharon-creech-9780061892332","title":"The Great Unexpected","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an \"enchanting tale to treasure,\" The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs--of young Naomi and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed--three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy--and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":54713133859089,"sku":"CIN0061892335VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780061892332.jpg?v=1790010013","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/great-unexpected-book-sharon-creech-9780061892332","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}