Permanent Rose by Hilary McKay
	List Price:   $5.99 Unit Price:   $4.79 You Save:   $1.20 (20%) ISBN-10:   1416928049 ISBN-13:   9781416928041 Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Edition:   Reprint Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   November 2006 Pages:   256 Format:   Trade Paper 2 Ages:   8 to 12 Grades:   3 to 7
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Feisty Rose takes center stage as the highly original Casson family faces a long, hot summer. As usual, things are a bit chaotic. Eldest daughter Caddy is engaged to darling Michael, and she's not altogether sure she likes it. Saffy and Sarah are on a mission to find Saffy's biological father (while cultivating hearts of stone). Indigo is cautiously beginning a friendship with a reformed bully, who desperately wants to feel like part of the Casson family. Rose, while dreadfully missing Tom (whom none of them have heard from), enters into a life of petty crime, shoplifting small items until her misadventures nearly bring disaster. Through it all, Rose's single-minded determination to find Tom remains as fierce as it is hopeless. Or is it? 'Exemplary comic writing -- buoyant, perceptive, subversive.' --Horn Book, starred review 'Entertaining and heartrending.' --Publishers Weekly, starred review 'Wonderful.' --Kirkus Reviews, starred review