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"it's wonderful when a book about miracles turns out to be one"
-Tim Wynne-Jones, award-winning author
"a thoughtful, engrossing, funny read"
-Booklist
"strongly recommended for middle grade collections"
-School Library Journal
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I was born and raised in New York, spent eighteen years in Boston after college, and then landed in Toronto, Canada, where I live with my husband, three kids, two cats, and one dog.
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