Raspberry House Blues

Poppy is on an odyssey. Her adoptive mother has taken off to find herself, so Poppy decides to live with her adoptive father, his new wife, Calypso, and their toddler, Sandeep, in a ramshackle rasp-berry-colored house. At first Poppy is distressed by the disordered household, which is unlike anything she has ever known, but soon it becomes a jumping-off point for her search for her birth mother.

Poppy discovers a great many things in the course of her search. She finds a kindred spirit in a strange, sickly woman named Becca, and an unexpected connection with the hippy, Calypso. But most of all, she finds a part of herself she didn't even know was missing.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
Published: 09/01/2000
ISBN: 9780887764936
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.61h x 5.18w x 0.59d

Review Citations: Quill & Quire 10/01/2000 pg. 45
School Library Journal 12/01/2000 pg. 145
Publishers Weekly 12/18/2000 pg. 79

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 51714 / Raspberry House Blues
Reading Level: 4.2 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8