Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand With full-color illustrations and a

With full-color illustrations and a trim size ideal for young readers

and Veronica Webb

and your nightmarish reveries

Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11

Discover birds who survive winter against all odds in award-winning creators Kirsten Hall and Jenni Desmond’s poetic

Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand With full-color illustrations and aA child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play "bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better family. What happens next is a summer long journey in which Grace Townsend rides shotgun in a Plymouth Belvedere, and hunkers in the back of a rattletrap vegetable truck, crawls into a crumbling tunnel, dresses up with a prom