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About Root Beer Candy And Other Miracles
Product Description Sent to stay with her estranged grandmother while her parents try to save their crumbling marriage, 11-year-old Bailey feels helpless and cast away. When a self-proclaimed prophet predicts “a stranger from the sea will change everything,” Bailey hopes this stranger can solve her problems―little suspecting her own ability to influence the world. Eleven-year-old Bailey believes in miracles. She has to; it will take a miracle to keep her warring parents together. This summer they are at a Marriage Counselling camp, leaving Bailey and her little brother Kevin with their estranged grandmother in the island town of Felicity Bay. There, an eccentric deposed minister makes a prophecy that a stranger from the sea will change everything. When Bailey discovers a mermaid-shaped piece of driftwood, she begins to believe that the mermaid is this stranger from the sea. Then, when a dolphin becomes stranded on the beach, Bailey forgets her own troubles and rouses the reluctant locals into action. Written in light and lyrical free verse, Shari Green’s warm and wistful novel brings Bailey face to face with both hard and beautiful truths about growing up and growing into her own ability to shape the world. From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Eleven-year-old Bailey keeps her eyes open for miracles. She and her younger brother, Kevin, are spending the summer with their grandmother while their parents are in a marriage counseling program. Bailey's fear that her parents may separate along with concern about her new friend, Daniel, who has cystic fibrosis, leads her to look for magic in many forms—including a mermaid-shaped piece of driftwood that Bailey refers to as a "gift from the ocean." Told in verse, Green's writing captures the hopes of a young girl who is starting to recognize the complexity of relationships. Among Bailey's new friends in Felicity Bay, a seaside Canadian town, is Jasper, a retired preacher who foresees that "a stranger from the sea will change everything." Things do begin to change, most of all in Bailey's life. When a chalice from the church goes missing and many of the townspeople suspect Jasper is the culprit, Bailey is determined to discover the truth. Along the way, Bailey learns important lessons about Felicity Bay that lead to healing between family members and friends and within herself. Dialogue written in italics, along with spacing between speakers, renders the narrative accessible and immediate to readers. Ultimately, Bailey makes peace with life's inevitable challenges, and she recognizes that her time in Felicity Bay was indeed magical. VERDICT Recommend this lovely and poignant novel to middle grade readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories.—Shelley Sommer, Inly School, Scituate, MA Review Praise for Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles 2017 White Ravens selection 2017 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award shortlist 2018 Chocolate Lily Book Awards: Novels nominee 2018 Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee 2018 MYRCA Award nominee 2017 Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens Starred Selection 2016 Resource Links "The Year's Best" selection "Dialogue written in italics, along with spacing between speakers, renders the narrative accessible and immediate to readers...Recommend this lovely and poignant novel to middle grade readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories."―School Library Journal "The author's lyrical free verse smoothly alternating between thoughts, descriptions, and dialogue, paints an atmospheric picture of a little beach community and its idiosyncratic people from eleven-year-old Bailey's point of view....Both funny and heart-breaking, this verse novel with its imaginative metaphors follows a spunky heroine as she slowly comes to peace with the fact that the world follows its own course."―White Ravens 2017 Catalogue "Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles tackles some serious problems common among kids today....Not everything can be fixed, but sharing a problem with someone who
