Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Pages
231
Awards
National Book Award (Longlist — Young People's Literature — 2013)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2015)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Parents' Choice Book Award (2013)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2015)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2015)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Junior — 2016)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2014)
Newbery Medal (Medal Winner — 2014)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2016)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Honor Book — 2015)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2015)
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Shortlist — 2014)
Garden State Children's Book Award (Nominee — Fiction — 2016)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2016)
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (Winner — Children's Fiction — 2014)
Blue Hen Book Award (Nominee — Middle Readers — 2015)
North Carolina Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2015)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2016)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Winner — 2014)
NPR: Books We Love (2013)
CCBC Choices (2014)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2014)
Nerdy Book Award (Middle Grade Fiction — 2014)
Notable Children's Book (2014)
Idaho Battle of the Books (2018)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Fiction for Older Readers — 2013)