A National Book Award nominee!
In a magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that Fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent thief who could alter her life forever.
awards!
A Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
A Booklist Editors' Choice
A Junior Library Guild selection
A National Book Award nominee
An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year
A Children's Choice Book
state lists!
New Jersey Garden State Book Award
North Carolina Book Award
Oregon Reader's Choice Award
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award
Illinois Bluestem Readers' Choice Award
Iowa Children's Choice Award
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
praise!
Booklist | STARRED review
★ “Combining the literary sensibility of E. B. White with the insouciance of Louis Sachar, Graff has written a tangle that should satisfy readers for years to come.”
The Wall Street Journal
“[A] blithe magical puzzle.”
EntertainmentWeekly.com
“Lisa Graff has created a beautiful world of deliciously interconnected stories . . . Lyrical.” A-
Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Morning Edition
“A perfect book for middle-grade readers for summer reading . . . It has pride of place on my bookshelves at home.”
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