Publish Date |
April 16, 2024 |
Category |
Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational |
Price |
$10.99 |
ISBN: 9781665914208
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: April 16, 2024
"Bustard fills her cast with a realistic mix of friends, rivals, supportive parents, and neighborly townsfolk (many given animated faces by Rowland’s vignettes at each chapter’s head), capturing a vivid sense of the rhythms and atmosphere of small-town life in the early 1960s—inspired, she writes, by a real event staged in the 1970s. Readers fond of comfy tales set in small Southern towns (practically a genre all its own) will enjoy meeting Magnolia Jean.""A sometimes meandering plot centers solidly on the book’s compassionate protagonist, whose colloquial narrative reflects the town’s quirky affability, offers a loving view of an intergenerational relationship, and touches on themes of memory and belief."