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Small Mercies

Small Mercies - Hardcover

by Bridget Krone
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bridget Krone, Karen Vermeulen (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2/25/2020Pages:162
Language:EnglishPublisher:Catalyst PressISBN-13:9781946395160ISBN-10:1946395161UPC:9781946395160Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Family, PlacesBook Topic:Alternative Family, Orphans & Foster Homes, AfricaSize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCS54EC6RZ

A 2022 Skipping Stones Honor Awardee
Named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews
2021 Outstanding International Books List, United States Board on Books for Young People


Mercy lives in modern-day Pietermaritzburg, South Africa with her eccentric foster aunts--two elderly sisters so poor, they can only afford one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eying their house. And that same house suddenly starts falling apart--just as Aunt Flora starts falling apart. She's forgetting words, names, and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school so nobody notices her. But when a classmate frames her for stealing the school's raffle money, Mercy's teachers decide to take a closer look at her home life.


Along comes Mr. Singh, who rents the back cottage of the house on Hodson Road. When he takes Mercy to visit a statue in the middle of the city, she learns that the shy, nervous "Mohandas" he tells stories about is actually Gandhi, who spent a cold and lonely night in the waiting room of the Pietermaritzburg train station over a hundred years ago. It marked the beginning of his life's quest for truth...and the visit to his statue marks Mercy's realization that she needs--just like Gandhi--to stand up for herself.


Mercy needs a miracle. But to summon that miracle, she has to find her voice and tell the truth--and that truth is neither pure nor simple.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Catalyst PressISBN-13:9781946395160ISBN-10:1946395161UPC:9781946395160Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Family, PlacesBook Topic:Alternative Family, Orphans & Foster Homes, AfricaSize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCS54EC6RZ
Krone, Bridget: -

Bridget Krone lives and works in a village called Hilton just outside Pietermaritzburg, in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa. Her office looks onto a field where cows graze in the winter and cranes (both crowned and blue) visit in the summer. She has spent most of her working life writing short novels and English language text books for school children in South Africa. Her favorite stories are those that, just when you expect a lesson, sing a song instead.

Vermeulen, Karen: -

Karen Vermeulen is an illustrator, designer, art director, and writer living in Cape Town, South Africa. She has designed the majority of Catalyst Press's book covers. She works from a corner of her small flat, her desk facing Table Mountain. She loves humor, stories, patterns and color. Her cat (Sir Henry) loves walking over Her keyboard and lying on top of her drawings while she tries to work.

Publisher: Catalyst Press

Contributor(s)

Bridget Krone, Karen Vermeulen (Illustrator)

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Bridget Krone

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