Touch Blue

Touch Blue

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<div>Touch Blue and your wish will come true.<br>"Why take chances?" says eleven-year-old Tess Brooks. "Especially when it's so easy to let the universe know what you want by touching blue or turning around three times or crossing your fingers."<br>But Tess is coming to know that it's not always that simple.<br>The state of Maine plans to shut down her island's schoolhouse, which would force Tess's family to move to the mainland--and Tess to leave the only home she has ever known. Fortunately, the islanders have a plan too: increase the numbers of students by having several families take in foster children. So now Tess and her family are taking a chance on Aaron, a thirteen-year-old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home. And Tess needs a plan of her own--and all the luck she can muster. Will Tess's wish come true or will her luck run out?<br>Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord offers a warm-hearted, humorous, and thoughtful look at what it means to belong--and how lucky we feel when we do. Touch Blue, sure as certain, will touch your heart.</div><div><br>Honors for Touch Blue:</strong> </strong><br>2011 Lupine Award, Maine Library Association. <br>2011 Maine Literary Award, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. <br>2010 Best Books For Children, Christian Science Monitor. <br>Best Children's Books of 2010, Book Page. <br>Best Children's Books of the Year (2011), Bank Street College (starred for outstanding merit)</div><div>Editor's Pick, Adoptive Families magazine.</div><div><br><br>Nominated for: <br>Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award <br>Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Vermont) <br>Rhode Island Children's Book Award Rhode Island Teen Book Award <br>Indian Paintbrush Award (Wyoming) <br>North Carolina Children's Book Award <br>The Charlotte Award (New York) <br>Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award <br>Horn Toad Tales, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Texas</div>