The Lovely Shoes
Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve
Can the right pair of shoes make *anyone* feel beautiful?
Franny is constantly embarrassed by two things in her life. One is her right foot, which curls in from a birth defect, so she has to wear ugly, heavy orthopedic shoes. And the other is her mother Margaret: beautiful, extravagant, flamboyant -- *mortifying*, in their small Ohio town.
Franny's first school dance is a disaster, so Margaret announces her latest crazy plan: They will travel to Italy to meet Salvatore Ferragamo, who will sculpt a pair of slippers especially for Franny. The idea is outrageous. The trip is expensive.
And the experience changes Franny's life forever.
Product Information
Susan Shreve is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the John Simon Guggenheim award in Fiction. Shreve has written both adult and children’s fiction, publishing over twelve titles in both categories. She constructs her stories in both genres with confidence and creates characters that are strong and courageous inventors of their own lives. Her stories resonate issues of alienation, individualism, and resilience in young adults. Susan’s work for young readers is humorous and poignant, with stories often depicting a character’s coming of age under difficult circumstances
General Fields
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- : Scholastic US
- : Arthur A Levine Books
- : 0.381
- : 31 August 2011
- : 219mm X 144mm X 23mm
- : United States
- : 01 September 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Susan Richards Shreve
- : Hardback
- : 256