by Clay Carmichael
http://readingpassport.wordpress.com/The novel is told through the eyes of 11 year-old spitfire Zoë Royster, who now has to live with her uncle after the untimely death of her mother. From the beginning of the story, however, Zoë shows that her life up until then has been anything but a fairy tale. ...
A spunky girl who has had to become too wise about the world and protective of being hurt, gets a new chance at a family. With echoes of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie, this book appeals to those who feel abandoned by a traditional family or parent, and hope to find a chosen family and final...
Wild Things is the story of recently orphaned eleven year old girl named Zoe gone to live with an unknown uncle named Henry. Zoe was raised by a mentally unstable mother and her steady stream of boyfriends. The years of neglect and dysfunction have taken their toll so that Zoe doesn’t really trust...
I’m not sure what it is about human nature that is attracted to the untamed and the aloof, but Clay Carmichael in Wild Things has surely tapped into this desire. Zoe has spent the first 11 years of her life taking care of herself just fine, thank you very much. With the death her mentally ill moth...
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