num_pages: 176
description: Lynns life is full  choir practice school shopping for the perfect jeans and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom who introduces Lynn to her own world and family  both more bizarre yet somehow more sane than Lynns own.Blossoms family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. The Underlanders forage and trade for the things they need (Is it useful or lovely?) living off the things Citizens throw away. Lynn is enchanted and amazed. But when she inadvertently reveals their secret she is forced to take measure of her own motives and lifestyle as she figures out what it really means to be a family and a friend.Classic Sarah Ellis this novel is smart rich engaging and insightful.
language: None
title: Outside In
publisher: Groundwood Books