![]() ![]() Something of a "True Grit" for middle-grade readers, it won both a Newbery Honor and an Edgar Award for best juvenile mystery. Her previous book was "One Came Home" (2013), a historical novel for 9- to 12-year-olds set in Wisconsin in 1871 during the largest nesting of passenger pigeons ever recorded. ![]() How did they become housemates? More importantly, will they stay housemates? Those questions are explored in Amy Timberlake's "Skunk and Badger," a sweetly entertaining new novel for 8- to 12-year-olds, as well as older people who might enjoy reading along with them.Ī Hudson native who lives in Chicago, Timberlake is not a prolific writer, so her books are special events. The livelier Skunk bounces and skips, and invites all the neighborhood chickens over for story time. ![]() Somewhere east of "Frog and Toad" and west of "The Odd Couple" live Skunk and Badger, as mismatched a pair of musteloids as you'll ever find in North Twist.īadger likes to hunker down with his hammers and safety glasses, doing Important Rock Work with his quartzes and tourmaline pegmatites. ![]()
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