'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.įrom Touch Blue Glancing back to the ferry, I spy Dad's Red Sox cap in the line of passengers. Horn Toad Tales, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Texas Rhode Island Children's Book Award Rhode Island Teen Book Award Touch Blue, sure as certain, will touch your heart.Ģ011 Lupine Award, Maine Library Association.Ģ011 Maine Literary Award, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.Ģ010 Best Books For Children, Christian Science Monitor.īest Children's Books of 2010, Book Page.īest Children's Books of the Year (2011), Bank Street College (starred for outstanding merit)Editor's Pick, Adoptive Families magazine. 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. Will Tess's wish come true or will her luck run out? And Tess needs a plan of her own-and all the luck she can muster. 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. Fortunately, the islanders have a plan too: increase the numbers of students by having several families take in foster children. 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.

'Especially when it's so easy to let the universe know what you want by touching blue or turning around three times or crossing your fingers.'īut Tess is coming to know that it's not always that simple.

'Why take chances?' says eleven-year-old Tess Brooks.

Touch blue by cynthia lord