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Ginny Moon, Benjamin Ludwig

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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her "forever home" a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right? But Ginny has other plans. She'll steal and lie and exploit the good intentions of those who love her anything it takes to get back what's missing in her life. She'll even try to get herself kidnapped. Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It's a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up. Taking you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character, Benjamin Ludwig's novel affirms that fiction has the power to change the way we see the world
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eng
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360 pages
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9780778330165
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Ginny Moon
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Ginny Moon
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Benjamin Ludwig
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eng
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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her "forever home" a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right? But Ginny has other plans. She'll steal and lie and exploit the good intentions of those who love her anything it takes to get back what's missing in her life. She'll even try to get herself kidnapped. Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It's a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up. Taking you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character, Benjamin Ludwig's novel affirms that fiction has the power to change the way we see the world
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Ginny Moon
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What an amazing debut novel! Ludwig effectively captures the voice, thought process, and behaviors of a young autistic girl who has escaped a harrowing living situation and has finally settled into a new ”forever” home. Unfortunately, she becomes obsessed with returning to her old home to find her “baby doll,” jeopardizing both her own and her new family's safety. Ginny truly is an original, and readers will be captivated by her story. -- Vicki Nesting for LibraryReads
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  • LibraryReads Favorites, 2017
  • Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2017
  • Library Journal Best Books, 2017.
  • School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2017
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Dewey number
813/.6
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no index present
LC call number
PS3612.U324
LC item number
G56 2017
Literary form
fiction
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adult
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Benjamin Ludwig
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25 cm
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Extent
360 pages
Isbn
9780778330165
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(OCoLC)962232128

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