TY - BOOK AU - Creech,Sharon TI - The great unexpected SN - 9780061892325 (trade bdg.) AV - JUV PZ 7 .C8615 Gre 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Joanna Cotler Books KW - Orphans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Fiction KW - Ireland N2 - "In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed--three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy. Soon Naomi and Lizzie find themselves zooming toward a future neither could ever have imagined. Meanwhile, on a grand estate across the ocean, an old lady whose heart has been deceived concocts a plan. . . "--Publisher ER -