From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sw
eeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, fri
endship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it a
n "enchanting tale to treasure," The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the
imagination.
Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs-of young Naomi a
nd Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nul
a, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estran
ged.
Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie S
catterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being aro
und when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town-like Crazy C
ora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like t
hat. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, aski
ng all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed-three locked trunks, a
pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy-and soon Naomi and Lizzie find th
eir lives changed forever.
As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals tha
t hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects
us all.
