Sheila O'Connor lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sparrow Road is her debut work for children.
Praise for Sparrow Road:
International Reading Association Award
Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards Finalist
A VOYA Best Book
A Booklist Best Book
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
A Bank Street Best Book
★ “Readers finding themselves in this quiet world will find
plenty of space to imagine and dream for themselves.” - Kirkus
Reviews, starred review
★ "[A] timeless piece of middle-grade fiction. . . . A special
book." - Booklist, starred review
“[T]he strength of even imperfect human connections is celebrated
through the relationships among a multitude of vivid and varied
characters.” – BCCB
"Lyrical writing in this first-person narrative, good character
development, and a sympathetic heroine will keep readers absorbed."
- School Library Journal
"Sparrow Road is a book that strikes—and gentles—with Truth. Here
is a world of Sorrow and Comfort, crafted by an artist who dares to
suggest, without sentimentality but with a hard-nosed realism, that
a broken world can be renewed through love and daring and community
and art. What a sweet and hopeful and engaging story." - Gary
D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor-winning author of Lizzie Bright and the
Buckminster Boy and The Wednesday Wars
"Sparrow Road is a place for wishing long and dreaming, and so is
this terrific novel. Sparrow Road is quite wonderful and I
recommend it highly." - Karen Cushman author of the Newbery
Medal-winning, The Midwife’s Apprentice, and the Newbery
Honor-winning Catherine, Called Birdy
"Sparrow Road has everything I could ask for in a novel –
mysteries, secrets, a creepy mansion with a haunting past, a cast
of unforgettable characters, and a twisting tale of
self-discovery." - Ann Martin, Newbery Honor-winning author of A
Corner of the Universe
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