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category: Children's Fiction
published: May 2014
ISBN:9781554983698
publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

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by Sarah Ellis

tagged: alternative family, girls & women, friendship
Description

Lynn’s life is full — choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family — both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn’s own.

Blossom’s family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. The Underlanders forage and trade for the things they need (“Is it useful or lovely?”), living off the things “Citizens” throw away. Lynn is enchanted and amazed. But when she inadvertently reveals their secret, she is forced to take measure of her own motives and lifestyle, as she figures out what it really means to be a family, and a friend.

Classic Sarah Ellis, this novel is smart, rich, engaging and insightful.

About the Author

Sarah Ellis

Ellis is a librarian and critic.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
10 to 13
Grade:
5 to 8
Reading age:
10 to 13
Awards
  • Short-listed, Red Maple Award for Fiction
  • Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (Novel)
  • Commended, Bank Street's Best Children's Books of the Year
  • Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids and Teens
  • Commended, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
  • Commended, Globe 100 Best Books
Editorial Reviews

This is a thought-provoking tale that will hopefully inspire as well as delight its readers.

— CM Magazine

Ellis is simultaneously a knotty and substantive writer and one with a light, conversational style . . .[A]n excellent book for discussion, eliciting lively partisanship on the question of what’s right and wrong.

— Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

A thoughtful, exciting read that makes everything ordinary suddenly have the possibility to be extraordinary.

— School Library Journal

Appealing and provocative, this challenges readers to assess their own lives, bringing up compelling issues as wide-ranging as the ills of consumerism and the obligations of friendship.

— Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

More than a thoughtful ode to found family, this slim, sweet novel challenges readers to look anew at the ones they have.

— Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

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