The 25¢ Miracle

By Theresa Nelson

Winner of the Washington Irving Children’s Choice AwardA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Selection of the Junior Library GuildStar light, star bright…Elvira wishes for a mother and finds instead the father she scarcely knew she had.“Friendless and dreamy 11-year-old Elvira Trumbull lives with her unemployed, heavy-drinking father…and idolizes the town’s children’s librarian, Miss Ivy, who shares her interest in growing roses and provides her with the female affection she has missed since her mother died.…Elvira is a splendidly realized character and a tough survivor.…Miss Ivy is the wise person we all wish we could be.…The complexities of Trumbull’s character…add depth to the story.…Readers will appreciate the changes they see in him and rejoice in the positive note on which the novel ends.”—Starred review, School Library Journal“This compassionate first novel is skillfully related and its characters are perceptively drawn.…‘They ain’t no guarantees worth piddly squat,’ Hank warns Elvira, but in her sweetly comic, determined way, Elvira sets out to improve the odds.…A noteworthy debut.”—Publishers Weekly

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theresa Nelson
• Release date: Mar 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781625361097

Theresa Nelson

Theresa Nelson has written eight books for young readers, and at least six as-of-yet-unproduced screenplays. Four of her novels have been cited as Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal: The 25¢ Miracle, And One for All, The Beggar’s Ride, and Earthshine, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is married to actor Kevin Cooney. They are the parents of three grown sons.