Bibliograph

The year my life turned upside down, Stéphanie Lapointe ; illustrated by Marianne Ferrer ; translated by Ann Marie Boulanger

Type

Label

The year my life turned upside down, Stéphanie Lapointe ; illustrated by Marianne Ferrer ; translated by Ann Marie Boulanger

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Reading age 10-14, Amazon.com

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grade level 4-7, Amazon.com

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The year my life turned upside down

Oclc number

1368269387

Responsibility statement

Stéphanie Lapointe ; illustrated by Marianne Ferrer ; translated by Ann Marie Boulanger

Series statement

Franny Cloutier, 1

Summary

Franny is a feisty 14-year-old with a gift for turning her thoughts and feelings into drawings. She lives in Montreal with her father, a sewing machine repair man by day and inventor by night. When he's invited to pursue his research in Japan, Franny is sent to a small town far away from Montreal and all her friends. She will meet a part of her family she has never heard of before and will have to adapt to a new school and a new life. Soon, she will discover that this is the town where her mother lived before she died, when Franny was very young. This leads Franny to investigate the mystery behind her mother's death and discovers a terrible truth

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification