White Stuff

White StuffAbbie Fenton wants a baby. Her husband Felix, not unaware of the thunderous ticking of Abbie's biological clock, wants to oblige but their home has still to be blessed. Cue the usual round of doctors, tests, probes and scans all to no avail. So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up in a make or break search for family, identity and meaning.

In the third and final book in the middle grade trilogy that Newbery Honor winner Rita Williams-Garcia raved is "brimming with hilarity and sisterly hijinks

She's been scribbling down bits of stories for as long as she can remember

The Infinite Monkey Cage

He has to escape before they find out he's here

and ultimately build a better work environment for everyone

and numbers-remembering systems and organs--including the heart

It is the winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction & you find me on a Tuesday

downright mean Grandma Pat has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with them

her heart and her society

and more recently

pressured world in which connected lives are uncontrollably pushed to the breaking point

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