Those Kids From Fawn Creek

Juvenile fiction 

     The seventh grade class of Fawn Creek K-12 that forms the ensemble cast of Erin Entrada Kelly's Those Kids From Fawn Creek has stayed pretty much the same since their first day of kindergarten.  Sure, they had lost a student recently.  But no one has ever joined the twelve of them.  There's 

*Greysen, considered a sissy by his duck hunting father and big brother who would disown him (if not worse) if they had a clue about his interest in fashion;

*Dorothy, the late-in-life only child of prim and proper parents who are minimally engaged in her life.  She suspects that they'd be happier if she'd never been born;

*status conscious mean girl Janie who looks down on all her classmates, even her cousins Abby, Barnet, and Lehigh;

*highly religious Daelyn, Baylee, and Hallie who call themselves the God Squad;

and *sports obsessed Max, Colt, and Daniel.

     Things change with the arrival of Orchid, a girl who has lived in New York, Paris, and other far away places.  Some kids are fascinated by her stories.  Cynical Janie is sure that she's deceiving them and making theirs town's residents out to be idiots.  There are rumors that she lives in the woods or is in the witness protection program.

     Orchid's new peers are swept into a period of outward drama and inward transformation by her arrival.  Their lives together separately will never again be the same.

     Kelly has dedicated her book to "anyone with dreams bigger than their hometowns".  They'd make a perfect readership.

On a purrrsonal note, we're continuing on a cold, rainy streak that will most likely last all week.  I'm wearing my new clean sweep pajamas a lot sooner than I'd expected to.  Lucky for me I don't have to go anywhere before Thursday.  (Jules)

Lucky for me.  All that good 👍 together ❤️ time.  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes 👏 🙌 out to Eugene and all the others who have to work outside in the rain.

Tobago and Jules Hathaway 

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