Eggs

by Elizabeth Clarke

Two sisters. One summer. One secret.Eleven-year-old Julianne Kobalsky and her nine-year-old sister Marylynne are sharing a summer like any looking for fairies in the garden, reading about the Russian Princess Anastasia, and holding impromptu tea parties. However, this year, nothing seems to be quite the same…Can the sisters face their family’s secret and find a way to accept it?Eggs is a novella written as a combination of prose vignettes, poems, invented (but factually accurate) encyclopedia articles, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and more. This novella, approximately 50 pages in length, can be read and enjoyed on different levels by children ages 8 and up and by adults.

Hardcover

First published February 19, 2012

Reviews

[Melissa Dice]

Writing was choppy, went from one subject to another, hard for me to read.