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Three Pennies
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A girl in foster care tries to find her birth mother before she loses her forever in this “tender tale” (School Library Journal, starred review) about last chances and new opportunities.
For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That’s why Marin carries three pennies and a pocket-sized I Ching with her everywhere she goes. Yet when everything in her life suddenly starts changing—like landing in a foster home that feels like somewhere she could stay, maybe forever—the pennies don’t have any answers for her.
Marin is positive that all the wrongs in her life will be made right if only she can find her birth mother and convince her that they belong together. Marin is close, oh so close—until she gets some unwelcome news and her resolve, like the uneasy earth far beneath the city of San Francisco, is shaken.
For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That’s why Marin carries three pennies and a pocket-sized I Ching with her everywhere she goes. Yet when everything in her life suddenly starts changing—like landing in a foster home that feels like somewhere she could stay, maybe forever—the pennies don’t have any answers for her.
Marin is positive that all the wrongs in her life will be made right if only she can find her birth mother and convince her that they belong together. Marin is close, oh so close—until she gets some unwelcome news and her resolve, like the uneasy earth far beneath the city of San Francisco, is shaken.
Author
Melanie Crowder
Melanie Crowder lives on the Colorado Front Range, where she is a writer and educator. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of the middle grade novels Parched, A Nearer Moon, and the Lighthouse Keepers series and the young adult novels Audacity and An Uninterrupted View of the Sky. Visit her at MelanieCrowder.com.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Marin has been bouncing around from foster home to foster home after her mother abandoned her seven years ago. It seems like Marin might have a chance at being adopted, but she's not yet ready to give up her vision of being reunited with her birth mother.I'm not really sure what more to say about this book other than that it didn't really do it for me. The one to three page chapters (and the short length overall) made it a fairly quick read, but I just didn't feel that invested. It was too obvious all along what was going to happen, and the characters were all too one-note (the perfect adoptive mother, the rigid social worker, etc.). The addition of an anthropomorphic owl was just odd and didn't really seem to connect with the main story at all; not to mention that his "wise" aphorisms were so cliche. On the plus side, some attempts at diversity were made.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quick read. Amazing, heartfelt, tender, and beautifully written. About a girl, Marin, who has been tossed around from foster family to foster family since she was four. Marin finally lands with someone who wants to adopt her. But Marin has always felt a longing to reunite with her birth mother. If she could just find her birth mother, Miran thinks maybe they could be a family again. I adored how the author, Melanie Crowder, wrote chapters from the perspective of Marin, the uneasy earth beneath, and the owl who watches over them. THREE PENNIES is the perfect addition to any classroom, school, or family library. Perfect for ages eight and up.
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