Book Descriptions
for Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles de Lint
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Fourteen-year-old T. J. has just moved with her family from their farm to the suburbs, and she’s lost both her best friend and her adored horse. Introverted T. J. is mired in self-pity. Elizabeth, on the other hand, is vocal about her feelings. A sixteen-year-old blue-haired punk, Elizabeth is defiant and proud of it, running away from home despite her parents’ warnings to be cautious. The world holds many dangers for Elizabeth, a “Little” person, only six inches tall. When T. J. and Elizabeth meet, they soon discover they have much in common, despite their obvious physical differences. When Elizabeth is inadvertently abducted by a gang of delinquents, quiet T. J. risks danger to rescue her new friend. Contemporary reality meets a fantastical underworld of magic, inhabited by goblins, gnomes, fairies, and, of course, Littles in a richly imagined tale. Fans of Charles De Lint will welcome this return to Newford, the fictional city featured in several of the author’s other works, including The Blue Girl (Viking, 2004). (Ages 11–15)
CCBC Choices 2008. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
When T.J. and her family are forced to move from their farm to the Newford suburbs, she makes an unexpected new friend?Elizabeth, a punked-out teen runaway with a big attitude'who also happens to be a ?Little,? standing just six inches tall. Her family lives inside the walls of T.J.'s house. T.J. and Elizabeth soon forge a prickly friendship that's put to the test when each girl finds herself in dangerous territory, without any way to help the other. Both have to learn the hard way whom to trust, and how to rely on their instincts and find kindred spirits. Little (Grrl) Lost is Charles de Lint at his captivating best.
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