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The Return of Calico Bright
An epic coming-of-age story
She suspects her boyfriend of cheating and her best friend of betrayal. But that's not the worst of sixteen-year-old Callie Weston's sorrows. The unveiling of not just one but two of her mother’s deceptions has driven Callie to despair. With an unlikely companion, she heads off into the wild and beautiful Madras Mountains to capture the spirit of her great-great-
great-great-grandmother Calico Bright, a nineteenth-century frontierswoman and family legend. But in so doing, she gets more than she bargains for and discovers Calico Bright in the unlikeliest of places.
The Return of Calico Bright forces its protagonist to confront not only her own adolescent sorrows but the seamy underbelly of a nation’s identity, in which racial hatred lurks in surprising places. The stakes are high and the outcome critical, but in the crucible of raw experience Callie emerges from her ancestor’s heroic shadow in ways she never would have imagined.
She suspects her boyfriend of cheating and her best friend of betrayal. But that's not the worst of sixteen-year-old Callie Weston's sorrows. The unveiling of not just one but two of her mother’s deceptions has driven Callie to despair. With an unlikely companion, she heads off into the wild and beautiful Madras Mountains to capture the spirit of her great-great-
great-great-grandmother Calico Bright, a nineteenth-century frontierswoman and family legend. But in so doing, she gets more than she bargains for and discovers Calico Bright in the unlikeliest of places.
The Return of Calico Bright forces its protagonist to confront not only her own adolescent sorrows but the seamy underbelly of a nation’s identity, in which racial hatred lurks in surprising places. The stakes are high and the outcome critical, but in the crucible of raw experience Callie emerges from her ancestor’s heroic shadow in ways she never would have imagined.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published September 15, 2003
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December 10, 2023
Mr. Winkler has done it again.
This story is about a young girl by the name of Calico Weston. She is a bright young lady but suffers from an image problem. She is overweight.
She has a very close friend who is always there to help her change herself into a slimmer person. They are very close.
Her mother volunteers at a homeless shelter and her father is a university professor and a published author.
Her mother reads to her about her great, great-great-grandmother Calico Bright. She was a real frontier woman and had many adventures.
As life happens, Calico starts a real adventure of her own with the unlikely help from her friend from the hood.
A great YA read, for anyone who struggles with self-image problems.
Mr. Winkler uses words as the painter would his/her brush.
This story is about a young girl by the name of Calico Weston. She is a bright young lady but suffers from an image problem. She is overweight.
She has a very close friend who is always there to help her change herself into a slimmer person. They are very close.
Her mother volunteers at a homeless shelter and her father is a university professor and a published author.
Her mother reads to her about her great, great-great-grandmother Calico Bright. She was a real frontier woman and had many adventures.
As life happens, Calico starts a real adventure of her own with the unlikely help from her friend from the hood.
A great YA read, for anyone who struggles with self-image problems.
Mr. Winkler uses words as the painter would his/her brush.
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