Ebook {Epub PDF} Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

 · Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand Published by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers on May 17th Genres: Fantasy, Magical Realism, Middle Grade Pages: Goodreads THINGS FINLEY HART DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT • Her parents, who are having problems. (But they pretend like they’re not.)• Being sent to her grandparents’ Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Some Kind of Happiness, her middle grade novel about mental illness, family secrets, and the power of storytelling, is a Edgar Award Nominee. Claire’s latest middle grade novel, Thornlight, is a classic fantasy-adventure and a companion novel to the acclaimed Foxheart, a Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Some Kind of Happiness is a book with an insightful look into adolescent anxiety and depression enveloped in an intriguing tale of family secrets and lies and how they shape or misshape our lives. Ms/5().

Some Kind of Happiness Booklist A quiet magic is at work in Legrand's novel, in which she adeptly interweaves Fin's imaginative writing with the real-life narrative, underpinning all with an appeal to honesty and self-acceptance. Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand. Reality and fantasy collide in this "beautiful and reflective tale" (Booklist, Audio Name Pronunciation with Claire Legrand. Created by TeachingBooks. Listen to the Audio () Share. Author Interviews 3. Interview with Claire Legrand. Some Kind of Happiness, Hardcover by Legrand, Claire, ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.

Some Kind of Happiness Quotes Showing of “I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.”. ― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness. Some Kind of Happiness HE IS COMING. She is coming. It was the beginning of summer. There were soft breezes in the air, and the Everwood was using them to speak. The ancient guardians used spells and charms to weave a golden cage around the secret at the heart of the Everwood. But still the secret grew and darkened, deep underground. In Some Kind Of Happiness, Claire Legrand offers a poignant portrait of depression and anxiety as seen through the eyes of her lost, unsure, and vulnerable eleven-year-old protagonist, Finley Hart. Readers of all ages will fall in love with Finley not in spite of these issues, however, but because of them.