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All the Impossible Things


No. of pages 384

Published: 2019

Great for age 7-10 years

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Reds inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby Red Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but cant figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Reds heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mum back in her life, and shes quickly swept up in the vortex of her mothers chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.

 

 

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Roaring Brook Press .

Lindsay Lackey has trained as an opera singer, worked in children's and teen services at a public library, and worked for a major publishing house in publicity and marketing. Born and raised in Colorado, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their spoiled dog. All the Impossible Things is her debut novel.

 

An Indies Introduce Selection

 

"With singing prose, All the Impossible Things tells a gorgeous story about the joy that's possible when we allow hope into our hearts. Wise and wondrous, this is truly a novel to cherish." --Katherine Applegate, New York Times-bestselling author of Wishtree and The One and Only Ivan

 

"A beautiful, nuanced story of how love and grief can coexist." - Mariama J. Lockington, author of For Black Girls Like Me

 

"With heart-wrenching, distressing flashbacks to life with her mother and grandmother before entering the foster system and heartwarming bittersweet moments with her new extended family, Lackey balances Red's navigation of her new reality. Red's occasional, interspersed letters to her mother add further poignancy. Painful to read--in a good way." - Kirkus

 

"Lackey deftly draws readers into Red's tumultuous emotional journey; with its strong narrative voice, interspersed with letters and journal entries in Red's own words, the text resonates with a mixture of hope and hurt, strength and vulnerability." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books