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The Miles Between
By Pearson, Mary E.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80508-828-1
- Publisher
- Holt
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2009
Gr 9-Up Des is bitter and despairing. Her parents packed her off to boarding school when she was seven, and she hasn't been home for nine years. She never makes attachments because she has a way of being kicked out of each school with regularity. While she is sulking by herself, a "visiting professor" asks her what she needs. She then proceeds to rip into him, indicating that all she wants is "one fair day" when the oatmeal isn't lumpy, when her parents know what it's like to be ab...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2010
Pearson's fifth novel is an unexpected marriage between the wildly improbable coincidences of Judith Clarke's One Whole and Perfect Day and the road-trip-as-metaphor-for-spiritual-odyssey of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons. Seventeen-year-old Destiny Faraday has been abandoned by her wealthy parents in a series of boarding schools while they travel the world with her younger brother; fed up with it...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Fate answers seventeen-year-old Destiny's wish ("Just one day, where the world is fair") with a pink convertible, a pet lamb, and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
