Small mercies
Krone, Bridget2020
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Mercy needs to stand up for herself. She also needs a miracle. 11-year-old Mercy lives with her eccentric foster aunts - two elderly sisters so poor they can afford only one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eyeing their house, which suddenly starts falling apart - just as Aunt Flora does, too. She's forgetting words, names and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school but when a classmate frames her for stealing the school's raffle money, Mercy's teachers decide to take a closer look at her home life. With the help of a neighbour, Mr Singh, who teaches Mercy about Gandhi and his principles of passive resistance, Mercy finds a tool that can help solve her problems. But first, like Gandhi, she needs to stand up for herself. She also needs a miracle. And to summon it she has to find her voice and tell the truth - and that truth is neither pure nor simple.
Main title:
Small mercies / Bridget Krone.
Author:
Krone, Bridget, author
Imprint:
London : Walker Books, 2020.
Collation:
313 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9781406391800 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2245684