Life is about to change in the sleepy little town of Blackbird Tree for two 12 year old best friends, Naomi and Lizzie. When a charming, but unusual boy, Finn, drops out of a tree, the girls don’t quite know how to react to his questions about their town and the people who live there. Finn’s unexplained arrival isn’t the only mystery in town, either; a dapper Dingle Dangle man has also recently arrived, snooping around asking the adults lots of questions. And Naomi wonders about other mysteries and secrets too: 3 dusty, sealed trunks, a pair of crows, a crooked bridge, and some long-supressed memories that will change these girls’ lives forever.
In The Great Unexpected, Newbery winner, Sharon Creech, has spun a charming, magical tale about that time in our lives when our definitions of ourselves change as our hearts and minds expand into the world beyond what we’ve known. With Creech’s gentle guidance, Naomi looks for and finds the answers to some of life’s most precious questions: can we learn to forgive the wrongs that were done to us, to see the love that surrounds us, and maybe even find our way to our true home?
- Posted by Cori