Eugenia Lincoln and the unexpected package

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Title:

Eugenia Lincoln and the unexpected package

Author:

DiCamillo, Kate, author.

Raver, Lorna, narrator.

Series:

Tales from Deckawoo Drive ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person with no time for gee-gaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. But her plans to sell the accordion, destroy the accordion, and give the accordion away all end in frustration. How can Eugenia stop being tormented by this troublesome package? Might she discover that a bit of unforeseen frivolity could be surprisingly ... joyous?

Audience:

K-3.

General Note:

Title from web page.

Compact disc.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (59 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Subject Term:

Gifts -- Juvenile fiction.

Older women -- Juvenile fiction.

Accordion -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Raver, Lorna,

Publisher:

Listening Library,

Publication Date:

2017

ISBN:

9781101916124

Publication Information:

[New York] : Listening Library, [2017]

Call Number:

CDB J DICAMILLO

Holds: Copies:

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What will it take for a cynical older sister to realize she's a born accordion player -- with music in her heart? Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person with no time for gee-gaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. But her plans to sell the accordion, destroy the accordion, and give the accordion away all end in frustration. How can Eugenia stop being tormented by this troublesome package? Might she discover that a bit of unforeseen frivolity could be surprisingly . . . joyous?

Author Notes

Kate DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 25, 1964. She received an English degree from the University of Florida. At the age of thirty, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked for a book warehouse on the children's floor. After working there for four and a half years, she fell in love with children's books and began writing. DiCamillo wrote the 2001 Newbery-honor book, Because of Winn-Dixie, which was adapted into a film in 2005. In 2004, she won the Newbery Medal for The Tale of Despereaux, which was also adapted into a movie in 2008, and for Flora and Ulysses in 2013. Her other works include the Mercy Watson series, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and The Magician's Elephant. She was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress for the term 2014-2015.

Kate's title, Raymie Nightingale, mde the New York Times bestseller list in 2016.