num_pages: 213
description: Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, Bloomability is Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful "bloomabilities" her new life has to offer. 01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9)  Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)
language: English
title: Bloomability
titlecomplete: Bloomability
characters: Domenica Santolina Doone
genres: Middle Grade, Boarding School, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Childrens, Travel, Juvenile, Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 10310
places: Lugano
publisher: Pan MacMillan