num_pages: 479
description: A fairytale, a mystery, a history of hot-air ballooning, and a romance . . . A novel so brilliant, moving, zingy -- and Zingy -- that it could only have come from Jaclyn Moriarty.The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night.Into their world comes socially isolated middle grader Listen Taylor, whose father is dating a Zing. Enter Cath Murphy, a young teacher at the elementary school that Cassie Zing attends, suffering from a broken heart. How will the worlds of these two young woman connect? Only the reader can know!
language: English
title: The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
titlecomplete: The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
genres: Young Adult, Teen, Magic, Magical Realism, Fiction, Chick Lit, Humor, Fantasy, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 1673
publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books