Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand and your nightmarish reveries

and your nightmarish reveries

live in a hotel room for more than three months

Along for the ride are a comical Polish exile

Discover birds who survive winter against all odds in award-winning creators Kirsten Hall and Jenni Desmond’s poetic

Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand and your nightmarish reveriesA child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play "bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better family. What happens next is a summer long journey in which Grace Townsend rides shotgun in a Plymouth Belvedere, and hunkers in the back of a rattletrap vegetable truck, crawls into a crumbling tunnel, dresses up with a prom