The Great Unexpected / Sharon Creech / 226 pages

You will always be enriched by reading books by Sharon Creech.  In this book two young girls find that when you are open to the Great Unexpected in life, wonderful things can happen and sometimes you overcome the most hopeless and fearful of situations.  Creech does a masterful job of binding together the stories of characters from different times and places.  Recommended for middle grade readers.