An eleven-year-old half-Japanese and half-Italian girl named Amber worries about making friends at her new school, and misses her dad who left when she was little. So Amber creates an imaginary father who's a secret agent and writes letters from him to her younger sister, Bella. Things quickly spiral, and Amber's good intentions get her in trouble.
year: 2014
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fatherless families, london, juvenile fiction, children of divorced parents, fathers and daughters, sisters, imagination, london (england), juvenile fiction, fiction, fiction, father-daughter relationship, children's stories
Editions
Shevah, Emma
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (2014)
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
Schools: 23
Shevah, Emma
An eleven-year-old half-Japanese and half-Italian girl named Amber worries about making friends at her new school, and misses her dad who left when she was little. So Amber creates an imaginary father who's a secret agent and writes letters from him to her younger sister, Bella. Things quickly spiral, and Amber's good intentions get her in trouble.
Schools: 5