Great Unexpected

<p>From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love friendship and forgiveness. With a starred review from <em>Kirkus</em> <em>Reviews</em> calling it an enchanting tale to treasure <em>The Great Unexpected</em> captures the heart and the imagination.</p><p>Humorous and heartfelt this is a story of pairs--of young Naomi and Lizzie both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree USA and of Sybil and Nula grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard Ireland who have become estranged.</p><p>Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend Lizzie Scatterding could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then one day a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed--three locked trunks a pair of rooks a crooked bridge and that boy--and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever.</p><p>As two worlds are woven together Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.</p>