| ISBN |
9781406391800 (paperback) |
| Name |
Krone, Bridget author. |
| Title |
Small mercies / Bridget Krone ; illustrations by Karen Vermeulen. |
| Published |
London : Walker Books, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Description |
313 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. |
| Summary |
Mercy needs to stand up for herself. She also needs a miracle. Eleven-year-old Mercy lives with her eccentric foster aunts - two elderly sisters so poor they can afford only one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eyeing their house, which suddenly starts falling apart - just as Aunt Flora does, too. She's forgetting words, names and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school but when a classmate frames her for stealing the school's raffle money, Mercy's teachers decide to take a closer look at her home life. With the help of a neighbour, Mr Singh, who teaches Mercy about Gandhi and his principles of passive resistance, Mercy finds a tool that can help solve her problems. But first, like Gandhi, she needs to stand up for herself. She also needs a miracle. And to summon it she has to find her voice and tell the truth - and that truth is neither pure nor simple. A book that already feels like a classic, Small Mercies holds a strong message for children today. Full of heart, it will shine among the best children's literature for years to come. |
| Target audience note |
9-12 years old. |
| Subjects |
Foster mothers -- Juvenile fiction |
| Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Juvenile fiction |
| Orphans -- Juvenile fiction |
| Neighborhoods -- Juvenile fiction |
| Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction |
| Truthfulness and falsehood -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Other Names |
Vermeulen, Karen illustrator. |
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