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Title	:	The Great Unexpected
Author	:	Sharon Creech
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 226 pages
Published	:	September 4th 2012 by HarperCollins
Categories	:	Childrens. Middle Grade. Fantasy. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Young Adult. Mystery

The Great Unexpected

Sharon Creech

Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 4671 Users | 638 Reviews

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From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an "enchanting tale to treasure," The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination. Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs—of young Naomi and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged. Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town—like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed—three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy—and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever. As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.

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ISBN:	0061892327 (ISBN13: 9780061892325)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014)

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One word for my reaction to this book: Meh. I was not bowled over by the tale, I think because I felt Creech tried to include far too many elements - fairies, Irish humor, strange degrees of separation, belonging, coming of age. The alternating back and forth between the characters and setting in Ireland, and those in America was kind of confusing too me, and I think it would be so for young readers, especially as the Irish chapters were an approximationg of brogue sometimes. When Creech finally

Originally posted on my blog Guiltless Reading Open yourself up to the unexpected ... open yourself up to possibilities. The book in one sentence: An orphaned girl's luck changes on the day that a boy falls out of a tree.My two cents: It's been awhile since I've sunk my teeth into a good children's book ... and this was such a treat to read! Recommended for children aged 8-12 / grades 3-7, I could totally see a young adult reader liking this just as much. While I have also heard so many raves

The Great Unexpected is one of those books that defies a plot summary. It's centered around two orphan girls, Naomi Deane and Lizzie Scatterding, who live in the small town of Blackbird Tree, but the story incorporates a vast number of other characters, and reaches far past the town limits. There are plots, and sub-plots, and it's the way that they intertwine that forms the heart of the book.Indeed, it would probably be 500 pages, rather than 225, if it explained all of the details of each



An intriguing book--I enjoyed it very much and read it quickly. I don't think I quite grasped everything, but it seems well worth a reread. I loved the hints at adolescent angst (not written in an ANGSTY way, but a real way), and the characters, and the setting--the Irish setting was perhaps better defined than the American setting, but that might have been done purposefully. I love the way the story slips in and out of the real world.Recommended for anyone who enjoys a little Irish folklore

What an unexpected delight! (See what I did there? ;) I found the audiobook at a library sale and snatched it up because Natalie had exclaimed over it (and she has yet to steer me wrong). Believe me when I say that this is an excellent middle grade novel. Ms. Creech takes a vast array of seemingly unconnectable characters and then gives hints little by little (keeping you turning pages or continuing to listen so you can find out what happens next) until there's an invisible thread connecting

This is a delight. If I could write children's stories with as much wit and energy, and imagination, I'd be a happy man. The characters are often laconic in speech, yet what little they say speaks volumes. Only the heroine Naomi's best friend, Lizzie, can talk the ears off a field of corn. And she does, to the reader's great enjoyment. The chapters set in Ireland, dotted throughout the book, at first seem curious and almost alien with their dark hints at things we don't understand. Going back