
All the Impossible Things
Square Fish · Paperback · May 17, 2022
A bit of magic, a sprinkling of adventure, and a whole lot of heart collide in All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey's extraordinary middle-grade novel about a young girl navigating the foster care system in search of where she belongs.
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- Who it’s for
- A tender, lightly magical story where emotional storms meet the search for a place to belong.
- Themes
- Foster care and belonging, Family relationships, Magic tied to emotions
- Genres
- Orphans & Foster Kids, Magic & Fantasy, Girls & Young Women
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A bit of magic, a sprinkling of adventure, and a whole lot of heart collide in All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey's extraordinary middle-grade novel about a young girl navigating the foster care system in search of where she belongs. "Wise and wondrous, this is truly a novel to cherish.” —Katherine Applegate, New York Times–bestselling author of Wishtree An Indies Introduce Selection Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother.
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Whenever Ruby “Red” Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can’t figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red’s heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she’s quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother’s chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.
Storms and Belonging
A tender, lightly magical story where emotional storms meet the search for a place to belong.
Come here for
- A foster-care story with magic woven into a girl’s feelings
- Found family, a petting zoo, and a dancing donkey
Expect
- Heart alongside the turbulence of family upheaval
- A young girl learning to face what feels impossible
Where it sits
| Orphans & Foster Kids | 89% |
|---|---|
| Magic & Fantasy | 77% |
| Girls & Young Women | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Orphans & Foster Kids
- Magic & Fantasy
- Homelessness & Poverty
- Authors
- Lindsay Lackey
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- May 17, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Foster care and belonging · Family relationships · Magic tied to emotions
- Reading lane
- Orphans & Foster Kids