When Mischief Came to Town

* [A] heartwarming and richly engaging tale. --<em>Kirkus Reviews </em>starred<em> </em>review When Inge Maria Jensen's mother dies the ten-year-old girl in braids is sent from Copenhagen to live on her grandmother's farm on the Danish island of Bornholm. The whimsical Inge is desperate to tease a smile out of her stern-seeming but jelly-soft grandmother with nonsensical songs and Hans Christian Andersen stories. A nostalgic nod to <em>Pippi Longstocking</em> and <em>Heidi </em>this cozy humorous novel explores love and loss . . . and the unsung magic of mischief.