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Acclaimed author Ann Hood brings Scholastic her first YA novel.

A twelve year old girl's quest for faith and understanding, in the face of ballet, her parents' divorce, and a move to a new town.
Madeline's struggle to understand the world around her will resonate with readers of all ages.

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Grade 5–7—Madeline Vandermeer wants to become a saint. She's already performed two miracles (moving a glass without touching it and having a premonition of her father's avalanche accident), so she figures she's well on the way—even though she isn't Catholic. She begins attending mass regularly, reads up on the lives of saints, writes to the Pope, and practices suffering. The suffering part is easy: her parents have divorced, and she is no longer able to take ballet class in Boston, an hour's drive from her Providence, RI, home. Also, Madeline harbors anger toward her mother, believing that Dad left because Mom is not sophisticated and beautiful like his new wife, Ava Pomme. However, during a family trip to Italy, Madeline comes to appreciate her mother for being all the things Ava is not. Hood's book is scattered, with minor plotlines trailing throughout. Some are dropped and others solved rather abruptly, but the overall story of Madeline's attempt to reconstruct her life after divorce comes together as she reaches a place of understanding: "This wasn't the life I would have chosen for myself. But I saw that my choices lay ahead of me. In this matter, my parents had decided. They had fallen away from each other, and I would forever be somewhere stretched between them." Hopefully readers won't become lost in the inconsequential and miss the touching story of how one girl deals with the breakup of her family.—Heather E. Miller, Homewood Public Library, AL
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  • PublisherScholastic Press
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0439928192
  • ISBN 13 9780439928199
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages224
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