Louisiana's Way Home

Follow-up to the New York Times Bestselling Raymie Nightingale, from an internationally revered author, twice winner of the Newbery Medal. When Louisiana Elefantes granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isnt overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from best friends Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisianas life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of the small Georgia town in which they find themselves including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder she starts to worry that she is destined only for goodbyes. (Which could be due to the curse on Louisiana's and Grannys heads. But that is a story for another time.) Called one of DiCamillos most singular and arresting creations by The New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale and now, with humour and tenderness, Kate DiCamillo returns to tell her story.