A girl decides to search for her estranged grandfather who she hasn't seen since her father died.
Shawn K. Stout Livres
Shawn K. Stout crée des histoires imaginatives et ludiques pour les jeunes lecteurs. Son œuvre invite les lecteurs dans des mondes uniques, en se concentrant sur la création de personnages inoubliables qui captivent le cœur. L'écriture de Stout est imprégnée d'esprit et de charme, faisant de ses récits un plaisir à explorer. Elle se consacre à apporter joie et aventure dans le paysage littéraire jeunesse.
Do you believe in impossible things? Cutie Grackle does. She has to. Otherwise, she’ll never be more than a lonely 10 year old in a cursed family.Cutie Grackle is used to being different—she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, and when she’s not sucking pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, she’s chatting with a weathered garden gnome for company. But having a flock of ravens follow you is more than just different. Cutie worries the birds are connected to the curse Uncle Horace tends to mutter about. And she’s right.The ravens present her with a fortune from a cookie, and when she touches it she’s pulled into a vision from her family’s past. It involves the curse and her long-lost mother. The birds offer up a series of objects, each imbued with memories that eventually reveal Cutie must do what her mother could break the curse.Part outdoor survival adventure, part fantastical quest, Shawn K. Stout’s The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle is a journey of hope, heart, and a willingness to believe in the impossible.
Fourth-grader Penelope Crumb's large nose leads to a family discovery.
