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Kepler's Dream
Juliet Bell

Kepler's Dream

Putnam (May 2012)
9780399256455
| Hardcover
247 pages
Dewey 1205
LC Classification PZ7.B388993 .Kep 2012
LC Control No. 2011024136

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Kids (12 & Under)
  • Kids: Middle Grade

Subject

  • Albuquerque (N.M.) - Fiction
  • Books And Reading - Fiction
  • Cancer - Fiction
  • Family Life - Fiction. - New Mexico
  • Grandmothers - Fiction
  • Mystery And Detective Stories
  • Swindlers And Swindling - Fiction

Plot

A young girl makes her fractured family whole again with the help of a very special book When eleven-year-old Ella's mother has to be hospitalized to undergo a dangerous cancer treatment, Ella spends the summer at "Broken Family Camp" with her eccentric grandmother, whom she's never met. The situation is hardly ideal for either of them. Ella is scared her mother may die, but her grandmother seems to care more about her library full of books than she does about her very own granddaughter. But when a rare and beloved book, Kepler's Dream of the Moon, is stolen from her grandmother's amazing library, Ella and her new friend Rosie make up their minds to find it. Finding the beautiful book her grandmother loves so much could even be the key to healing Ella's broken family. An affecting and beautifully written story of family, forgiveness and the wonder of the stars, Kepler's Dream is a sparkling and memorable debut.