Caddy Ever After - Softcover

McKay, Hilary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405661399 ISBN 13: 9781405661393

Publisher: Galaxy

Synopsis

Love is in the air for the Casson family! Four hilarious, endearing tales unfold as Rose, Indigo, Saffy, and Caddy each tell their intertwining stories. Rose begins by showing how she does special with her Valentine's card for Tom in New York. Not to be outdone, Indigo has his own surprise in store for the Valentine,s Day disco at school. For her part, Saffy has an unusual date in a very, very dark graveyard, and is haunted by a balloon that almost costs her her best friend.

But it is Caddy who dares everything -- as she tells all about love at first sight when you have found the Real Thing. Unfortunately the Real Thing is not darling Michael. What is Rose going to do?

About this title

About the Author:

Hilary McKay is the award-winning author of Binny Bewitched (which received two starred reviews), Binny in Secret (which received three starred reviews), Binny for Short (which received four starred reviews), and six novels about the Casson family: Caddy’s World (which received three starred reviews), Saffy’s Angel (winner of the Whitbread Award, an ALA Notable Book, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and a School Library Journal Best Book), Indigo’s Star (an ALA Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book), Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, and Forever Rose. She is also the author of Wishing for Tomorrow, the sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. Hilary lives with her family in Derbyshire, England. Visit her at HilaryMcKay.co.uk.

From Booklist:

Gr. 6-9. McKay's fourth novel about the Casson family begins with every child's nightmare: while listening to a ghost story at school, nine-year-old Rose wets herself. Once again, McKay creates a sly, jovial portrait of an English family that pitches toward minor disasters only to be rescued by its own loving, eccentric members. Narrated in the voices of the three youngest Cassons (Rose, Indigo, and Saffron), whose passages sometimes employ lists and appendixes, the novel is more fragmented than its predecessors, and readers meeting the Cassons for the first time may wish for more background. Despite that, the crowd of voices echoes a large family, with each person trying to be heard, and the dramas, from older sister Caddy's engagement to Rose's thrilling discovery of "a flying feeling," are as wild and endearing as ever. Readers will also delight in the precise, human details, narrated by children who miss nothing: "Tired people cannot learn," says Rose's teacher as she dumps a handful of markers into her full coffee cup. Another charmer for Casson fans. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Galaxy
• ISBN 10: 1405661399
• ISBN 13: 9781405661393
• Binding: Paperback