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Maddie has spent her childhood in a succession of foster homes, always feeling small and unlabeled. A ghost, as her Granny Lane tells, saved her when she was an infant and promised she is special, but the constant moving makes that promise hard to grasp. Now at the East Tennessee Children’s Home, Maddie longs for a place to call her own and keeps a "book of houses" filled with pictures of places she dreams of living. When a new girl named Murphy arrives—full of stories about exotic travels, flying, and poets for wild horses—she offers Maddie something she has never received before: a sense of belonging. Together, they explore the possibility of a home created by friendship.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Frances O'Roark Dowell
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