Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden
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adolescence
adolescent
and brothers
anger
Author_Philippa Dowding
best friends
boyfriends
Category=YFH
Category=YXA
changes
choices
community
corn fields
death
death of a parent
dignity
discovery
drugs
enemies
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family
flight
friendship
gossip
grade 8
growing up
honesty
humour
lies
loss
magic realism
maturity
new things
ontario
parents
puberty
right-of-passage
secrets
self
self discovery
self-awareness
sisters
sisters and brothers
small town
spirituality
truth
trying
young adulthood
Product details
- ISBN 9781459707351
- Weight: 198g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2014
- Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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This morning, I woke up on the ceiling …
So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.
Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she’s an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school. On top of all that, now she’s a flying freak.
How can she tell her best friend or her mother? How can she live her life? After Gwendolyn almost meets disaster flying too high and too fast one night, help arrives from the most unexpected place. And stranger still? She’s not alone.
So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.
Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she’s an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school. On top of all that, now she’s a flying freak.
How can she tell her best friend or her mother? How can she live her life? After Gwendolyn almost meets disaster flying too high and too fast one night, help arrives from the most unexpected place. And stranger still? She’s not alone.
Philippa Dowding is an award-winning copywriter, a poet and children’s author. Her YA books in the Lost Gargoyle series were shortlisted for the Diamond Willow, Hackmatack and Silver Birch awards, and The Gargoyle at the Gates was named a
White Raven Book 2013 from the International Youth Library in Munich. Philippa lives in Toronto with her family.
