Book Cover Image of Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington

Catching a Storyfish
by Janice N. Harrington

    Publication Date: Sep 20, 2016
    List Price: $17.99
    Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    Target Age Group: Middle Grade
    ISBN13: 9781629794297
    Imprint: Wordsong
    Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
    Parent Company: Boyds Mills Press

    Hardcover Description:

    This lyrical middle-grade novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one’s individual voice.

    Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama home is that she’ll live near her beloved grandfather. When Keet starts school, it’s even worse than she expected, as the kids tease her about her southern accent. Now Keet, who can “talk the whiskers off a catfish,” doesn’t want to open her mouth. While fishing with her grandfather, she learns the art of listening and gradually, she makes her first new friend. But just as she’s beginning to settle in, her grandfather has a stroke, and even though he’s still nearby, he suddenly feels ever-so-far-away. Keet is determined to reel him back to her by telling him stories; in the process she finds her voice and her grandfather again.