Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand With essays by leading authorities

With essays by leading authorities

Robin Fennel

stunningly conceived epic thriller

and Veronica Webb

Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11

Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand With essays by leading authoritiesA child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play "bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better family. What happens next is a summer long journey in which Grace Townsend rides shotgun in a Plymouth Belvedere, and hunkers in the back of a rattletrap vegetable truck, crawls into a crumbling tunnel, dresses up with a prom