About This Book

Courage comes in all colors.

They are different from one another, all three girls. But the one who is most unusual — unlike anyone the kids at school have ever seen — is the new girl, the one who arrives in a wheelchair and always wears a knitted hat. Bluish, some of the kids call her. She is frail and tired, strange and frightening to the children around her.

But one girl, Dreenie, is fascinated by Bluish. Dreenie's powerful curiosity, almost an obsession, leads her and another girl, Tuli, to reach beyond their fear. In a beautiful, moving story, the growing relationships among the three girls are touchingly detailed as they develop a new and rewarding closeness.

Here is a warm, humorous, and hopeful novel that reaffirms the strength of young people and their capacity for love and compassion.

About the Authors or Illustrators

Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton received the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the most prestigious international award in children's literature. She also won the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was the first children's author to receive a MacArthur Foundation "a genius" grant in 1995.

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