Library picks

Giselle’s story is not the usual one. She can’t tell you about trick or treating, or about airplane rides, or train trips, or museum days. She can’t tell you about parents either, or about brothers and sisters. But, she can tell you about grandfathers, innkeepers, lighthouses, fishermen, a pig named frank, and an island called Almond Island.

Imagine that your parents are actually from another planet. A planet so far away they didn’t even travel on a space ship to get to you. Thought you had it bad? Rebecca must come to terms with the fact that her adoptive parents are from another universe. Furthermore: who are Rebecca’s real parents anyway, and what will they do to her now that they are “on the loose”? And can’t Ms. Agnes, Rebecca’s teacher, just adopt her already?