Missing Sisters

· Harper Collins
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Alice's life is about to change.

She's a skinny orphan. She's never been able to hear too well. And she can't speak too well, either. The only person who seems to care for her—one of the nuns at the orphanage—gets taken away from Alice in a freak accident.

And then one day somebody calls Alice by the wrong name.

Miami, she says.

Miami Shaw.

Miami Shaw, who may be Alice's twin sister.

Who lives only a few miles away.

Who has what Alice has always dreamed of—a whole wonderful family. But is there a place in that family for Alice?

From bestselling author Gregory Maguire comes a funny, heartrending story of the strength of sisterhood and the struggle to find a family of one's own.

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4,0
4 reviews
Toby A. Smith
31 May 2021
MISSING SISTERS is a novel targeted to children 8-12 years of age -- about twin sisters who stumble upon the existence of the other after living apart for most of their lives. I think it probably holds up better for its targeted age range than it did for me as an adult reading it. Though I am ordinarily a big fan of Gregory Maguire. It's 1968. Alice is 12, partially deaf, deeply religious, and living in a Catholic orphanage in Troy, New York. What she doesn't know is that her sister, Miami Shaw, has been adopted into a loving family in not far away in Albany. Only after a few weeks at a summer camp does Alice begin to suspect she has a double living somewhere. How she and Miami come to meet and what happens afterwards represents the meat of this novelette. It's a quick read and might make a good book for a family to read together. I do not however recommend it for other adult readers.
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About the author

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion picture—Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for children include Cress Watercress, Leaping Beauty, and Egg & Spoon, winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor. He lives in New England and France.

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