Miles from Ordinary: A Novel

Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers… --Audrey Couloumbis author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby. Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mothers ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all she seems so much better these days and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control..... No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams and I mean no one said James S. Jacobs Professor of Childrens Literature at Brigham Young University of her breakout novel The Chosen One. Now with Miles from Ordinary this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.. Miles from Ordinary was recently named to The American Libray Associations 2012 list of Best Fiction for Young Adults. The Chosen One was named one of 2012s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults by the ALA.