When Life Gives You Mangoes
I'm excited to be working with Poppy Stimpson at Pushkin Press for the blog tour for When Life Gives You Mangoes . When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kerreen Getten is wonderful and refreshing read. It also was thought provoking. Because of these factors, I loved When Life Gives You Mangoes. Book: When Life Gives You Mangoes Author: Kareen Getten Publisher: Pushkin Press Date Published: October 20, 2020 Genre: Middle Grade/Fiction Book Synopsis For fans of deeply poignant middle grade about friendship and loss like The Thing About Jellyfish , comes the story about a young girl who can't remember anything from her previous summer after a hurricane. Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend
