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HOPE COMES TO A TROUBLED FAMILY THROUGH A SIMPLE BREAD RECIPE

A boy unites an immigrant community and rebuilds his family-using a simple sourdough bread recipe in this popular book for kids.

Eliot Winston, a grieving son, must convince his new step-mother - now Griff Winston's widow - to adopt him. But when she married Griff Winston, Marj hadn't bargained on being the ... More

HOPE COMES TO A TROUBLED FAMILY THROUGH A SIMPLE BREAD RECIPE

A boy unites an immigrant community and rebuilds his family-using a simple sourdough bread recipe in this popular book for kids.

Eliot Winston, a grieving son, must convince his new step-mother - now Griff Winston's widow - to adopt him. But when she married Griff Winston, Marj hadn't bargained on being the single mother of a twelve-year-old boy. Alli Flynn, a foster child new to the school, convinces Eliot that he must fight to keep his family intact and the best way to do that is to help Mrs. Winston with the Bread Project, a fund raising project for the school. With his whole future at stake, Eliot tries hard to please Marj; but as the deadlines near for the Bread Project and for Marj to sign his adoption papers, Eliot finds it harder and harder to hang on to hope.

In the tradition of Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt, this poignant middle grade novel follows two kids who search for a family and a home. The story is told in alternating voices, which Booklist describes as ". . .voices old before their time, due to years in the system. . . .". The Bread Project gives them a way to reach into a wide variety of homes and create community. It's a tender story of two lonely hearts looking for a place to belong.

Come and cheer for Eliot and Alli as they fight for a community, a family, a home.

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