Edward's Eyes (Reprint)

by Patricia MacLachlan (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
From the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Sarah, Plain and Tall" comes a deeply stirring, delicately lyrical portrait of a child and his family who give a stranger an amazing gift when the man is in desperate need of a miracle.
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Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan (1938-2022) was the award-winning author of many novels for children, including the Newbery Medal and Scott O'Dell Award-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall, which was adapted into a Hallmark television movie starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken. She co-wrote the teleplay for the film as well as for two sequels, Skylark and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, based on her novels.

Honored with a Christopher Award and a National Humanities Medal among many others, MacLachlan was also the author of Baby, Waiting for the Magic, The Truth of Me, and the picture books Someone Like Me (illustrated by Chris Sheban), and The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse (illustrated by Hadley Hooper).

Chris Sheban has been awarded three gold and three silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. Some of the books he has illustrated are I Met a Dinosaur by Jan Wahl, Catching the Moon by Myla Goldberg, and What To Do With a Box by Jane Yolen. Someone Like Me is his first book with Roaring Brook Press.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781416927440
Lexile Measure
470
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date
February 24, 2009
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV039030 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Death & Dying
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
JUV032010 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball
Library of Congress categories
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Massachusetts Children's Book Award
Nominee 2010 - 2011

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