by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell, Candlewick Press, 2013
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry -- and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. Suggested for grades 3-6.
**This book won the 2014 Newbery Award and is on the 2014-2015 Bluebonnet Reading List too!**
This book is shelved in the fiction section at call number F DIC.
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