* "Told in the easy, laconic tone of good, Southern storytelling, Hackl's debut rolls off the tongue and into the heart easy as warm butter on a biscuit. to really find your way.Ģ020 Mississippi Library Association Children's Author AwardĢ019 Southern Book Award Winner-Children's CategoryĢ020-2021 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee While Cricket camps out in an old tree house and looks for clues, she meets the last resident of the ghost town, encounters a poetry-loving dog (who just might hold a key to part of the puzzle), and discovers that sometimes you have to get a little lost. So with her daddy's old guidebook and a coat full of snacks stolen from the Cash 'n' Carry, Cricket runs away to find the room. And if she can find it.Ĭricket's only clue is a coin from a grown-over ghost town in the woods. Now Mama's run off, and Cricket thinks the room might be the answer to getting her to come back. How far would you go to find something that might not even exist?Īll her life, Cricket's mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious artist. Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe is "part treasure hunt, part wilderness adventure, and all heart."-Alan Gratz, New York Times Bestselling author of Refugee
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