Bloomability

Overview

Thirteen-year-old Dinnie is accustomed to change, but when her aunt and uncle whisk her away to an international school in Switzerland, she's overwhelmed. Soon, however, new friendships and the awesome beauty of Switzerland begin to unlock thoughts and dreams within her, and Switzerland becomes more than a temporary home -- it becomes a part of Dinnie herself, the self she never knew she could be. Using the picturesque backdrop of Switzerland, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech delivers a poignant novel about a young girl discovering the beauty of nature, her place in the world, the value of friendship -- and all the "bloomabilities" that life has to offer.

Editorial Reviews

Creech makes use of "a light first-person narrative and some insightful dream flashes," to convey an uprooted 13-year-old's coming of age, said PW. Ages 8-12. (Sept.)
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Author Information

Bio of Sharon Creech

I was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and grew up there with my noisy and rowdy family: my parents (Ann and Arvel), my sister (Sandy), and my three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom). For a fictional view of what it was like growing up in my family, see Absolutely Normal Chaos. (In that book, the brothers even have the same names as my own brothers.) Our house was not only full of us Creeches, but also full of friends and visiting relatives. In the summer, we usually took a trip, all of us piled in a car and heading out to Wisconsin or Michigan or, once, to Idaho. We must have been a very noisy bunch, and I'm not sure how our parents put up with being cooped up with us in the car for those trips. The five-day trip out to Idaho when I was twelve had a powerful effect on me: what a huge and amazing country! I had no idea then that thirty-some years later, I would recreate that trip in a book called Walk Two Moons. One other place we often visited was Quincy, Kentucky, where my cousins lived (and still live) on a beautiful farm, with hills and trees and swimming hole and barn and hayloft. We were outside running in those hills all day long, and at night we'd gather on the porch where more stories would be told. I loved Quincy so much that it has found its way into many of my books--transformed into Bybanks, Kentucky. Bybanks appears in Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird and Bloomability. Bybanks also makes a brief appearance (by reference, but not by name) in The Wanderer.

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Additional Info

Imprint

HarperCollins e-books

Filesize

1.13 MB

Number of Pages

288

eBook ISBN

9780061784699