I'll Sing You One-O

twelve-year-old Gemma Doesn’t Know Where To Turn. She Is Being Adopted By Relatives She Didn’t Know She Had. The Foster Family She Has Loved All Her Life Is Breaking Up. The Farm Where They’ve Lived Is Being Sold. Gemma Needs To Fix Things Fast—if She Can Only Figure Out How. now She Has Found The Solution: She’ll Get Herself An Angel. Her Increasingly Desperate Efforts To Earn One, By Turns Heartbreaking And Hilarious, Lead Her To A Confrontation With Her Painfully Mysterious Past, And Ultimately To An Understanding With Her New Family That Holds Out Hope For Them All. this Engrossing Novel Offers A Fresh And Winning Portrait Of A Quirky Heroine With A Unique Voice, A Passionate Heart, A Mission To Accomplish, And The Kind Of Offbeat Logic That Can Cause Even The Most Careful Plans To Go Awry.children's Literaturehow Does A Child Hold In All Her Emotions When Her Life Is Falling Apart Around Her? Why Do Adults Feel They Can Make Decisions For A Twelve Year Old And Then Give That Child No Say In The Decision And No Time To Adjust To The Possibility Of Change? Gemma Has Been In A Stable Foster Care Situation Since She Was Four Years Old And Her Mother Abandoned Her. She Misses Her Mother, But She Loves Mr. And Mrs. A. And All The Foster Children Who Come And Go On The Farm. But When She Is Twelve, Social Services Decides That The Farm Will No Longer Be A Registered Foster Care Home. All The Children Must Move To Other Homes, And Gemma's Life Is Uprooted. The Social Workers Find What They Think Is The Perfect Placement For Gemma. They Discover That She Is A Twin And Her Brother, Garnet, Has Lived His Whole Life With Their Maternal Uncle And Aunt. Moira And Dave Are Happy To Rediscover Gemma And Generously Open Their Home To Her. Gemma Sings The one-o Song To Herself When She Can No Longer Hold Her Emotions In Check. Leaving The Only Home She Knows, Uprooting Her Life And All That Is Familiar, Gemma Finds Herself In A Loving Family With People Who Are Strangers To Her. In Spite Of All That Is Against Her And Against This Family From Successfully Integrating, In Spite Of Gemma's Misguided Attempts To Get Back To Her Foster Home—that Include Stealing From Her New Family And Calling In A Bomb Scare At A Motel—by The End Gemma And Garnet, And Moira And Dave, Have Found A New Unity Within Their Family. While Gemma Still Longs To Be With The As On The Farm, She Is Now Able To Move Forward With Her Life. Gregory Captures The Emotions And Actions Of A Frightened Twelve Year Old, And Isable To Convey How This Child Views The Loving Actions Of Moira And Dave, Who Are Doing Their Best To Love And Protect Her. The Readers Will Relate To Gemma And Root For Her Throughout.