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‘The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball’ by Elizabeth Atkinson
Hardcover, 224 pages,
Middle grade fiction,
ages 8-12
ISBN: 978-1-939017-71-0
Gold Medal, 2016 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, Pre-Teen Fiction
Cheerful Ruby LaRue and her shy friend Eleanor Bandaranaike couldn’t be more different. Ruby has lived her whole life in the small ski town of Paris, New Hampshire. Eleanor’s family comes from Sri Lanka. But these unlikely best friends share one thing: they both have BIG plans. So when a mysterious fortune teller urges them to go outside their world to unlock their dreams, they plunge down a whirlwind path to try to reach their goals.
A relevant story in today’s world-exploring cross-cultural sensitivities and diversity within a classic New England microcosm-The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball questions the role of destiny and the ability we have to achieve that which seems impossible.
About the author: Elizabeth Atkinson is the author of “The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball,” which won the Gold Medal for Pre-Teen Fiction at the 2016 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. She is also the author of the award-winning middle-grade novel, “I, Emma Freke,” which Booklist called a “rich story of self-acceptance” and Kirkus Reviews described as “a poignant journey of self-discovery.”
While she loves living on the North Shore of Massachusetts, her real home is in the woods of western Maine.
