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Touch blue

Lord, Cynthia. (Author).

Summary: When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780545035316 : SAL
  • ISBN: 0545035317 : SAL
  • Physical Description: print
    186 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, [2010]

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Target Audience Note:
750 Lexile.
Subject: Foster home care Fiction
Luck Fiction
Islands Fiction
Maine Fiction

Available copies

  • 33 of 34 copies available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Greenwood Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 34 total copies.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school's population.
  • Baker & Taylor
    When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
  • Baker & Taylor
    When the state of Maine plans to shut down an island schoolhouse because it lacks enough students to justify keeping it open, the islanders bolster enrollment by taking in foster children, including a 13-year-old trumpet player who comes to stay in young Tess's home. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Rules.
  • Scholastic
    An exquisite second novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES! TOUCH BLUE, sure as certain, will touch your heart.

    The state of Maine plans to shut down her island’s schoolhouse, which would force Tess’s family to move to the mainland--and Tess to leave the only home she has ever known. Fortunately, the islanders have a plan too: increase the numbers of students by having several families take in foster children. So now Tess and her family are taking a chance on Aaron, a thirteen-year-old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home. And Tess needs a plan of her own--and all the luck she can muster. Will Tess’s wish come true or will her luck run out?

    Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord offers a warm-hearted, humorous, and thoughtful look at what it means to belong--and how lucky we feel when we do. Touch Blue, sure as certain, will touch your heart.
  • Scholastic
    An exquisite second novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES! TOUCH BLUE, sure as certain, will touch your heart.

    The state of Maine plans to shut down her island's schoolhouse, which would force Tess's family to move to the mainland--and Tess to leave the only home she has ever known. Fortunately, the islanders have a plan too: increase the numbers of students by having several families take in foster children. So now Tess and her family are taking a chance on Aaron, a thirteen-year-old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home. And Tess needs a plan of her own--and all the luck she can muster. Will Tess's wish come true or will her luck run out?

    Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord offers a warm-hearted, humorous, and thoughtful look at what it means to belong--and how lucky we feel when we do. Touch Blue, sure as certain, will touch your heart.

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