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Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, and selected as an OLA Best Bet for 2012 a poignant and gently funny middle - grade novel about two maybe orphans and their unlikely friendship with a cranky old neighbor. Set in Vancouver and the B.C. wilderness, this is a book that reflects Caroline Adderson's many writerly strengths - her ''wit and a facility for dialogue, good pacing and a brisk, clean prose style'' (*Globe and Mail*), her ''close observation of telling details'' (*Quill & Quire*) and her ability to ''celebrate a child's imagination in a realistically humorous way'' (*Canadian Materials*). ** ### Review **A 2013 CLA Book Award Finalist** "Two-time Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner Caroline Adderson is that rare bird: a writer who brings to the middle-grade novel the artistry and respect it deserves…To write them requires a particular skill set, one that Adderson exhibits in spades."*—Quill and Quire*, starred review "Highly Recommended."*—CM Magazine* “'Do you understand now, boys, why I can’t ever go into an old folks’ home? Who would help me with my gas?' 'The nurses,' I said. 'Ha. They won’t. They’ll put me in diapers and leave me in the corner.' 'You’re too old for diapers, Mrs. Burt,' Artie said. 'Darn right I am.'" — from the book ### About the Author ""Caroline Adderson is the author of several award-winning books for adults as well as for children. Her works of adult fiction (Bad Imaginings, A History of Forgetting, Pleased to Meet You and The Sky Is Falling) have been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Rogers Writer's Trust Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writer's; Prize. She is a three-time CBC Literary Award winner, two-time winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and recipient of the 2006 Marian Engel Award for her body of work. Caroline's children's books include I, Bruno (nominated for the Chocolate Lily and Shining Willow book awards), Very Serious Children (winner of the Diamond Willow Award and shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award) and Jasper John Dooley (Spring 2012, Kids Can). She lives in Vancouver with her husband, filmmaker Bruce Sweeney, and their son, Patrick.""