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Title:The Great Unexpected
Author:Sharon Creech
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 226 pages
Published:September 4th 2012 by HarperCollins
Categories:Childrens. Middle Grade. Fantasy. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Young Adult. Mystery

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From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an "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 and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged.

Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town—like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking 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 their lives changed forever.

As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.

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ISBN: 0061892327 (ISBN13: 9780061892325)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014)

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Naomi lives in Blackbird Tree. There's lots of intriguing things and mysteries in Blackbird Tree. One day a boy named Finn appears. Naomi and her friend Lizzie go around town and living their lives. We also get chapters that are of Nulea's, the woman Naomi is living with,past.This book was interesting and I wanted to know how it ended. It was a bit confusing though. I love how it shows that we are all connected to each other in more ways than we think.I also love the way that she writes. There's

The Great Unexpected is one of those books that defies a plot summary. It's centered around two orphan girls, Naomi Deane and Lizzie Scatterding, who live in the small town of Blackbird Tree, but the story incorporates a vast number of other characters, and reaches far past the town limits. There are plots, and sub-plots, and it's the way that they intertwine that forms the heart of the book.Indeed, it would probably be 500 pages, rather than 225, if it explained all of the details of each

The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech is one of those books that gets right into things, much like this review, and doesnt diddle daddle. The novel features two girls, Naomi and Lizzie who meet a young man named Finn who fell from a tree and seems to act very peculiar. To be honest, I felt like there wasnt a specific plot and that the novel just went on its way, much like life. Whether it is a good thing or a bad Im not exactly sure. Ive read a couple of novels where a plot was not exactly set

I spent the majority of this book simultaneously confused and delighted. I was spellbound by the rich world, the spunky orphan girl at the center of the story, her best friend, the rest of the colorful cast of characters, and the fabulously wicked and seemingly unrelated snippets of life with Pilpenny and Sybil. Slowly, as if groping in the dark and feeling the outlines of objects, the story's plot came together for me, but always with a firm sense that I was missing something. Fortunately, the

This review is from my blog, Studies in Storytelling. http://studiesinstorytelling.blogspot...I read this book in one sitting, and it was a complete delight. I say this as a 21-year-old college senior unaccustomed to reading Middle Grade. It releases September 4, 2012. The twelve-year-old, neurotic Naomi has a violent past and a childlike perspective, but a refreshingly sophisticated voice. Her sarcasm and levelheadedness contrast her friend Lizzie Scatterdingheads innocent, tactful

I find I agree with other readers--I wanted to like it, and I found parts of it very charming and funny. But the story did not hold together, and I had a hard time imagining how a middle-school reader could ever figure it out. The boy Finn's role was left unfinished; it was hard to figure out in what time period it was supposed to be written; and Lizzie was just a little too odd for my tastes. The concept of connectedness was a great premise, but it played out a little too amorphously.I did like

3.5 stars