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Sure Signs of Crazy


School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 304

Published: 2014

Great for age 6-14 years

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Love can be a trouble word for some people. Crazy is also a trouble word. I should know.You've never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson. While most of her friends obsess over Harry Potter, she spends her time writing letters to Atticus Finch. She collects trouble words in her diary. Her best friend is a plant. And she's never known her mother, who left when Sarah was two.Since then, Sarah and her dad have moved from one small Texas town to another, and not one has felt like home.Everything changes when Sarah launches an investigation into her family's Big Secret. She makes unexpected new friends and has her first real crush, and instead of a "typical boring Sarah Nelson summer," this one might just turn out to be extraordinary.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published in 2014 by Little, Brown & Company .

Karen Harrington was born in Texas, where she still lives with her husband and children. Sure Signs of Crazy is her first book for young readers.

 

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Parents' Choice Award - Fiction
This book was recognised in the Fiction category by the Parents' Choice Award.

Volunteer State Book Award - Middle School
This book was recognised in the Middle School category by the Volunteer State Book Award.

Kentucky Blue Grass Award - Grades 6-8
This book was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Kentucky Blue Grass Award.

Young Hoosier Book Award - Middle Grade
This book was recognised in the Middle Grade category by the Young Hoosier Book Award.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.

Don't think this will be a hard sell to readers...for Harrington has created a protagonist who is, in her own way, as clear-eyed, tough-minded, and inspiring as any dystopian hero. * Booklist *

 

Readers intrigued by the premise of this moving story will sympathize with the plucky protagonist and rejoice in the way her summer works out. * Kirkus *