Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
New York Scholastic Press 2010.
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Awards
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award (Nominee — 2012)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2013)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2014)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2012)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2013)
Lupine Award (Winner — Juvenile/Young Adult — 2010)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Bluestem Award (Nominee — 2013)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2014)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2013)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2014)
Rhode Island Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2012)
Maine Literary Award (Winner — Young Adult — 2011)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Elementary — 2013)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2014)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2012)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2013)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2011)
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