Blue Like Friday

Siobhan Parkinson

mar 2008 · Distribuido por Roaring Brook Press

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NOT EVERYONE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH THE SAME LENS. From the author of Something Invisible comes this funny and poignant novel about the hues of friendship.

Spunky Olivia and eccentric Hal are an unlikely pair. While Hal suffers from a neurological condition called synesthesia that causes him to associate things with colors, Olivia tends to see the world in black and white. Still, these two are friends through thick and thin, through rose-colored days and blue days, even when Hal's plan to get rid of his mother's boyfriend backfires by driving his mother away. Olivia's honest, funny and always-opinionated voice tells this story with colorful perception.

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Siobhan Parkinson is the author of 12 previous novels, including SOMETHING INVISIBLE and SECOND FIDDLE with Roaring Brook Press as well as SISTERS . . . NO WAY!, winner of Ireland's Bisto Book of the Year Award, THE MOON KING, a Bisto Merit Award winner, FOUR KIDS, THREE CATS, TWO COWS, ONE WITCH (MAYBE), also a Bisto Merit Award winner, and KATHLEEN: THE CELTIC KNOT, in the American Girls/Girls of Many Lands series. The first children's writer appointed Writer-in-Residence for the Dublin Corporation/Irish Writers' Centre, she is also currently editor of BOOKBIRD, the magazine of Ibby International, and has been a contributor to The Horn Book and other journals. She lives in Dublin with her husband and son.