DESTINY REWRITTEN

This sweet contemporary story about poetry family and determining your own destiny is perfect for fans of books by Wendy Mass Joan Bauer Sharon Creech and Rebecca Stead. Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has never met her father so when a book of poetry with his name in it goes missing Emily and her friends search all over their hometown of Berkeley California hoping to track it down. Meanwhile even though her English-professor mother insists that Emily is destined to become a poet (she named her after Emily Dickinson!) Emily secretly corresponds with her idol romance writer Danielle Steel. As Publishers Weekly says Fitzmaurice's story deftly mingles Dickinson Danielle Steel a budding crush and protesting tree sitters while maintaining suspense that leads to a satisfying ending.