In the little town of Blackbird Tree, Ireland, live two orphan girls: Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. One day, the strangely charming Finn boy drops out of a tree. Then the Dingle Dangle Man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Soon Naomi and Lizzie find themselves zooming toward a future neither could ever have imagined.
year: 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: friendship, juvenile fiction, orphans, fiction, ireland, juvenile fiction, fiction, identity (psychology), sisters
Editions
Creech, Sharon
Joanna Cotler Books (2012)
In the little town of Blackbird Tree, Ireland, live two orphan girls: Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. One day, the strangely charming Finn boy drops out of a tree. Then the Dingle Dangle Man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Soon Naomi and Lizzie find themselves zooming toward a future neither could ever have imagined.
Schools: 35
Creech, Sharon
Traces the parallel stories of estranged Irish sisters Sybil and Nula and American orphans Naomi and Lizzie, whose respective explorations into their identities and struggles with misfortune are told in rotating voices.
Schools: 3
Creech, Sharon
This story about life's unexpected gifts follows two pairs of girls, one in Ireland and one in the United States, as they move past their difficulties to lives of forgiveness, love, and hope.
Schools: 15