Shadow Baby by Alison Mcghee
A young girl forms an unforgettable friendship with an elderly neighbor while searching for answers about her family's past in this national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominee. Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin sister, dead at birth, but her mother steadfastly refuses to talk about these people who are lost to her daughter. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky, a lone old man, for a school biography assignment, she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious and imaginative, the girl invents version upon version of Mr. Kominsky's past, just as she invents lives for the people missing from her own shadowy past. The journey of discovery that these two oddly matched people embark upon is at the heart of this beautiful story about friendship and communion, about discovering what matters most in life, and about the search to find the missing pieces of ourselves. McGhee's prose glistens with shrewd truth and wild imaginings, creating a novel that will reverberate in the hearts and minds of readers long after the book is finished. From the Hardcover edition.
Alison McGhee is the author of the middle-grade novel Snap and the young adult novel All Rivers Flow to the Sea. Alison is the New York Times best-selling author of Someday. This is her first picture book with Candlewick Press. Scott Menchin is the author-illustrator of Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Happy, which received the Christopher Medal. He also illustrated Bounce and Wiggle, both by Doreen Cronin, and Man Gave Names to All the Animals, an award-winning children's book based on a hit song by Bob Dylan. He lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312423773 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312423772 |
| Title | Shadow Baby |
| Author | Alison Mcghee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2003-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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