num_pages: 149
description: From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant comes the charming story of nine-year-old Flora Smallwood and the eventful year she spends in the quiet community of Rosetown Indiana.For nine-year-old Flora Smallwood Rosetown Indiana is full of surprises many of the best of which happen at the Wing and a Chair Used Book Shop where she loves to read vintage childrens books after school in the faded purple chair by the window.But lately those surprises havent been so good. Her dear old dog Laurence recently passed away. Not long after her parents decided to take a breather from their marriage and now Flora has to move back and forth between their two houses. Plus shes just begun fourth grade and it is so much different than third.Luckily Flora has two wonderful friendsone old and one new. And with them around to share thoughts and laughs and adventures big and small life in Rosetown still has many sweet momentsand even some very happy surprises!
language: English
title: Rosetown
publisher: Beach Lane Books