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This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award joins Scholastics paperback line.When May dies suddenly while gardening, Summer assumes shell never see her beloved aunt again. But then Summers Uncle Ob claims that May is on her way back--she has sent a sign from the spirit world.Summer isnt sure she believes in the spirit world, but her quirky classmate Cletus Underwood--who befriends Ob during his time of mourning--does. So at Cletus suggestion, Ob and Summer with Cletus in tow set off in search of Miriam B. Young, Small Medium at Large, whom they hope will explain Mays departure and confirm her possible return.,
About the Author
An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature. A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers; several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog. Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist. Characteristically, she portrays introspective, compassionate young people who live in rural settings or in small towns and who tend to be set apart from their peers. from bookrags. com
