The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel - Fiadhnait Moser 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 10 - 14 years
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Lexile Measure: 740 (What's this?)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Yellow Jacket (May 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 149980668X
ISBN-13: 978-1499806687
The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel Hardcover – May 1, 2018
by Fiadhnait Moser (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Flourishing-Floralie-Laurel-Fiadhnait-Moser/dp/149980668X
Product details
Age Range: 10 - 14 years
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Lexile Measure: 740 (What's this?)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Yellow Jacket (May 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 149980668X
ISBN-13: 978-1499806687
This middle grade, magical realism debut about a young girl who sets out to discover the truth behind her mother's disappearance is The Secret Garden meets the Book Scavenger series!
Floralie Laurel, freshly expelled from Mrs. Coffrey's School for Young Girls, works as a flower seller in an English village with her guardian brother, Tom, miles and miles away from their real home in France. Tom and Floralie are drowning in debt, but fortunately, Grandmama arrives to save them. Unfortunately, Grandmama's idea of "saving" means sending Floralie to the Adelaide Laurel Orphanage for Unfortunate Children and shaping her into a proper lady-i.e., ridding her of imagination, daydreams, paintings, and poetry.
Before Grandmama can take her away, Floralie discovers a hidden box of dried flowers and a letter from her mother, who had mysteriously disappeared years ago. The letter promises that the flowers will lead Floralie to Mama if Floralie decodes them with a floriography-a dictionary of flower meanings-written by Claude Monet's gardener.
Accompanied by an orphan boy who speaks only on paper, a blind librarian, and a thieving dormouse, Floralie sets off for Monet's house in France to find Mama. But Mama's fate may not be quite as Floralie expected, and the gardener may be hiding secrets deeper than Monet's water lily ponds....
Review
In <i>The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel</i>, Moser places her words as carefully as Floralie's flowers, and shows how we can connect with each other, through time and distance, if we're willing to learn another's language at the risk of showing our imperfections. (Janel Kolby, author of Winterfolk)
<i>The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel</i> is a vividly drawn debut that will stick with you long after the final page is turned. Moser's words are her paint and the page her canvas, and the result reads like a Monet masterpiece. (MarcyKate Connolly, New York Times Bestselling author of Shadow Weaver)
A beautiful bouquet of lush language, magical landscapes, and colorful characters. Moser has written a story designed to be sipped and savored like nectar. (Laura Marx Fitzgerald, award-winning author of Under the Egg and The Gallery)
About the Author
Fiadhnait Moser has studied creative writing, dance, and visual art. When she is not writing, she can be found oil painting, taking photographs, speaking French, or choreographing. She teaches Irish and contemporary dance at her own studio, the Fiadhnait Moser School of Dance. She also teaches preschool. She grew up in the Boston area and currently lives in Vermont. The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel is her debut novel.
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