Gradle bird
By: J.C. Sasser
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781633932630
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Haunted houses; Imagination; Interpersonal relations; Fiction
Description: "Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa, Leonard, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia's I-16. But when Leonard moves her to a crumbling old house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Ms. Annalee Spivey, Gradle is plunged into a lush, magical world much stranger and more dangerous than from the one she came. Here she meets Sonny Joe Stitch, a Siamese Fighting Fish connoisseur overdosed on testosterone, a crippled, Bible-thumping hobo named Ceif "Tadpole" Walker, and the only true friend she will ever know, a schizophrenic genius, music-man, and professional dumpster-diver, D-5 Delvis Miles. As Gradle falls deeper into Delvis's imaginary and fantastical world, unsettling dangers lurk, and when surfaced Gradle discovers unforeseen depths in herself and the people she loves the most"--Back cover.
Notes: IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, 2018.