Counting Thyme
When eleven-year-old Thyme Owens' little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it's just the second chance that he needs. But it also means the Owens family has to move to New York, thousands of miles away from Thyme's best friend and everything she knows and loves. The island of Manhattan doesn't exactly inspire new beginnings, but Thyme tries to embrace the change for what it is: temporary.
After Val's treatment shows real promise and Mr. Owens accepts a full-time position in the city, Thyme has to face the frightening possibility that the move to New York is permanent. Thyme loves her brother, and knows the trial could save his life — she'd give anything for him to be well — but she still wants to go home, although the guilt of not wanting to stay is agonizing. She finds herself even more mixed up when her heart feels the tug of new friends, a first crush, and even a crotchety neighbor and his sweet whistling bird. All Thyme can do is count the minutes, the hours, and days, and hope time can bring both a miracle for Val and a way back home.
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"Thyme embraces her role as the helpful middle sister, secretly saving slips of "time" — good behavior chits — so she can go home, all the while trying to avoid adjusting to New York or letting anyone at school know about Val's illness. With just the right pace of character development and a believable voice for the shy, awkward Thyme, Conklin takes her protagonist through a journey of connecting to others and learning to articulate her own needs.... A slow and sweet book that will strum the heartstrings of readers." — Rhona Campbell, School Library Journal
Product Details
| Recommended Age | 10 - 13 |
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| Author | Melanie Conklin |
| ISBN | 0399173307 |
| Publication Date | Apr 12, 2016 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
| Language | English |
