The Creech, Sharon. creator text nyu New York Joanna Cotler Books c2012 2012 1st ed. monographic eng

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226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. "In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. 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. Soon Naomi and Lizzie find themselves zooming toward a future neither could ever have imagined. Meanwhile, on a grand estate across the ocean, an old lady whose heart has been deceived concocts a plan..."--Publisher. juvenile Sharon Creech. e-ie--- Orphans Juvenile fiction Ireland Juvenile fiction 9780061892325 (trade bdg.) 0061892327 (trade bdg.) 9780061892332 (lib bdg.) NOG 121003 20190501211658.0 794240174