The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle

<p><strong>Do you believe in impossible things? Cutie Grackle does. She has to. Otherwise, she'll never be more than a lonely 10 year old in a cursed family.</strong></p> <p>Cutie Grackle is used to being different&mdash;she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, and when she's not sucking pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, she's chatting with a weathered garden gnome for company. But having a flock of ravens follow you is more than just different. Cutie worries the birds are connected to the curse Uncle Horace tends to mutter about. And she's right.</p> <p>The ravens present her with a fortune from a cookie, and when she touches it she's pulled into a vision from her family's past. It involves the curse and her long-lost mother. The birds offer up a series of objects, each imbued with memories that eventually reveal Cutie must do what her mother could not: break the curse.</p> <p>Part outdoor survival adventure, part fantastical quest, Shawn K. Stout's <em>The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle</em> is a journey of hope, heart, and a willingness to believe in the impossible.</p>