2 Books by Chris Woodworth
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Overview: Chris Woodworth’s debut novel, When Ratboy Lived Next Door, was hailed by School Library Journal as “an outstanding offering from a first-time author.” Her novel, Double-Click for Trouble, was selected as finalist for Best Book of Indiana–Children’s Literature and her book, Georgie’s Moon, won Best Book of Indiana-Children’s Literature. Her newest novel, Ivy in the Shadows, will be released in 2013. (All published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.)
Chris has lived in Indiana most of her life, recently moving to North Carolina. She is the mother of two children.
Genre: Children
Ivy in the Shadows
After Ivy’s stepfather disappears, Ivy’s mama begins waitressing at Dining Divinely to make ends meet. She also takes in a boarder—twelve-year-old Caleb, who’s the same age as Ivy and is the weirdest guy she’s ever met. With Mama working full-time, Ivy has to babysit her little brother, JJ. She also has to fend off the nosy Pastor Harold; stop Caleb from filling JJ’s head with lies; and keep her best friend, Ellen, from knowing anything about her embarrassing situation at home.
Ivy has always found out all she needs to know by lurking in the shadows (some might call it "eavesdropping"). But as things at home become more complicated, she learns to step into the light and not only listen but speak up.
When Ratboy Lived Next Door
From the spring day in 1962 when Willis Merrill and his pet raccoon arrive in Maywood, Indiana, they are nothing but trouble for Lydia Carson. Lydia nicknames Willis "Ratboy" and wonders why he can’t be more like his handsome older brother, Elliot. Life gets more complicated when Lydia alienates Elliot by insulting Willis and comes to a standoff with her mother. In her struggle to make amends with all, Lydia finds an ally in Willis and discovers the good in herself.
In her sharp, fresh voice, the author captures the flavor of a small town in Middle America and the hearts of its populace as she tells a powerful story about the resiliency – and flexibility -of family.
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