FINALIST, National Association of Elementary School Principals, Children's Book of the Year 2012.
"Weisskoff’s debut middle-grade novel takes newly orphaned Mia through raw grief and custody battles with gentleness and skill. Packs real emotional weight into its slim pages and escapes the didactic tone of some 'issue' novels. A promising debut in realistic youth fiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Evenly paced, well-written and thoroughly engaging, Glass Palace is sensitive in its treatment of all the characters and is compassionate from beginning to end." -- The Therapist (Magazine of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)
Everything is going great for Mia in her hometown of Oakland, California. She and her best friend Samantha just started sixth grade and Mrs. Griffith is already their favorite teacher ever. After school, Mia tends her own garden behind her grandpa's house. And on clear nights, she and her dad take turns peering into their telescope, tracking planets across the starry sky.
Then, on Mia's twelfth birthday, her mom and dad are killed in a car accident. And everything falls apart.
As if it’s not bad enough to lose your parents, Mia’s grandparents start fighting over where she’s going to live next. Her New York grandparents want her to move all the way across the country to live with them. Immediately! And for some reason, the grandpa she knows and loves best isn't trying to stop them.
Unless Mia can find some way to slow things down, she’s going to lose all that's left of her once perfect world.
Ages ten and up.
"Weisskoff’s debut middle-grade novel takes newly orphaned Mia through raw grief and custody battles with gentleness and skill. Packs real emotional weight into its slim pages and escapes the didactic tone of some 'issue' novels. A promising debut in realistic youth fiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Evenly paced, well-written and thoroughly engaging, Glass Palace is sensitive in its treatment of all the characters and is compassionate from beginning to end." -- The Therapist (Magazine of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)
Everything is going great for Mia in her hometown of Oakland, California. She and her best friend Samantha just started sixth grade and Mrs. Griffith is already their favorite teacher ever. After school, Mia tends her own garden behind her grandpa's house. And on clear nights, she and her dad take turns peering into their telescope, tracking planets across the starry sky.
Then, on Mia's twelfth birthday, her mom and dad are killed in a car accident. And everything falls apart.
As if it’s not bad enough to lose your parents, Mia’s grandparents start fighting over where she’s going to live next. Her New York grandparents want her to move all the way across the country to live with them. Immediately! And for some reason, the grandpa she knows and loves best isn't trying to stop them.
Unless Mia can find some way to slow things down, she’s going to lose all that's left of her once perfect world.
Ages ten and up.
