A girl decides to search for her estranged grandfather who she hasn't seen since her father died.
Shawn K. Stout Boeken
Shawn K. Stout creëert fantasierijke en speelse verhalen voor jonge lezers. Haar werk nodigt lezers uit in unieke werelden, met een focus op het creëren van onvergetelijke personages die het hart veroveren. Stout's schrijfstijl is doordrenkt van humor en charme, wat haar verhalen tot een genot maakt om te ontdekken. Ze zet zich in om vreugde en avontuur te brengen in het literaire landschap voor de jeugd.
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.
