Giant Pumpkin Suite

<b>Who are you if you can&#146;t be what you always expected? A moving coming-of-age tale of prodigy and community unlikely friendship and growing things.</b><br><br>Twelve-year-old Rose Brutigan has grown seven inches in the last eight months. She&#146;s always been different from her twin brother Thomas but now she towers over him in too many ways. The gap in their interests continues to widen as well. Musically talented Rose is focused on winning the upcoming Bach Cello Suites Competition while happy-go-lucky Thomas has taken up the challenge of growing a giant pumpkin in the yard of their elderly neighbor Mr. Pickering. But when a serious accident changes the course of the summer Rose is forced to grow and change in ways she never could have imagined. Along the way there&#146;s tap dancing and classic musicals mail-order worms and neighborhood-sourced compost fresh-squeezed lemonade the Minnesota State Fair &#151; and an eclectic cast of local characters that readers will fall in love with.