Louisiana, with her quick, insightful takes on everyone she meets, grabbed readers\' hearts in Raymie Nightingale , and in this book she isn\'t about to let go.
Now, with humor and tenderness, Kate Dicamillo returns to tell her story..
Called one of DiCamillo\'s most singular and arresting creations by the New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale.
But as Louisiana\'s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town -- including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder -- she starts to worry that she is destined only for goodbyes.
Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home.
This time, Granny intends for them never to return.
But this time, things are different.
After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. -- The New York Times Book Review When Louisiana Elefante\'s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave Home immediately, Louisiana isn\'t overly worried.
Louisiana, with her quick, insightful takes on everyone she meets, grabbed readers\' hearts in Raymie Nightingale , and in this book she isn\'t about to let go
