Out of that, the voice of Candice came to him. Given an English assignment to write a paragraph about her life that corresponds to each letter of the alphabet, Candice decides to enlarge it to a chapter about each letter – and along the way, she tells not just her story, but the story of her loved ones.īarry Jonsberg says the book was inspired by an English assignment he gave his own students, who enthusiastically responded. Candice is determined to fix the problems of everyone she cares about. Her life is complicated: her father and her uncle don’t talk, her mother has shut herself away since her baby sister died of cot death years ago, her American penpal Denille doesn’t write back, and her best friend, Douglas Benson From Another Dimension, is, well … afraid he’s fallen into another dimension. Twelve-year-old Candice Phee is hilariously honest and a little odd – but she has a big heart and the best intentions. Inside a Dog interview with Barry Jonsberg. ‘Funny, charming and sometimes brutally honest’: Review by Emily Gale for Readings
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