Kate DiCamillo is a wonderful storyteller and her books have won numerous awards including the Newbery Medal three times for: Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and Flora & Ulysses. I have loved reading her stories and one of my favorites is a recent one called Raymie Nightingale.
This story is very short, a mere 150 pages with large print. Marta lives at a hotel with her mother. Each day she does the same things while keeping her promise to her mother that she will not bother anything or anyone. Both of them are waiting for their father to come home from a war. Her days are the same until an eccentric older woman checks into the hotel and changes Marta and her mother's world in a beautiful way.
Recommend: yes
Junior fiction, storytelling, family, hope
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