A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddies life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But its hard to feel special when youve spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that shes at the East Tennessee Childrens Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a book of houses in which she glues pictures of places shed like to live. Then one day, a new girl, Murphy, shows up at the Home armed with tales about exotic travels, being able to fly, and boys who recite poetry to wild horses. When Murphy offers Maddie something she has never had before, Maddie begins to wonder if she has finally found someone who feels like home.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book features in the following series: Aladdin Fiction, Thorndike Literacy Bridge, Thorndike Literacy Bridge Middle Readers .

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade-9th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Simon & Schuster .

Frances O Roark Dowell is the editor and co-founder of Dream/Girl, an arts magazine for girls and has been Poet in Residence at Duke University. She has had dozens of poems published in literary journals, and is the author of two previous children's novels, Dovey Coe and Where I'd Like to Be. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons.