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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
By Kate DiCamillo
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 3 - 7 | Grades 1 - 5 | U | 4.3 | n/a |
Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry — and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format — a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell.
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry — and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format — a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell.
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN-13: 9780763687649
ISBN-10: 0763687642
Published on 9/13/2016
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
Book Reviews (92)
I think it is cool that a squirrel can be named after vacuum cleaner
I decided to read this book because of the comic strip inside. I like this book because it is very funny.
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This book is fantastic you definitely do not know what is going to happen next I would recommend this book from ages 8 and up and I love all the elaborative detail and how it is sooooooooooooooooo funny
This book is about a girl and a squirrel who go on a wild trip. The two mane characters in this story is flora and ulysses. This book has lots of detail, description and lots of good words. I would recommend this book to story lovers, comic lovers and action lovers.
I loved this book. This book would be for grades 3 - 6. If you like comedy and comics you should like this book. My favorite character is Ulysses the squirrel named after a vacuum cleaner. This is a really good book.
I didn't like this because it was really weird and they tried to be funny but they were not at all. The only good part about the book is that they changed from comics to normal writing. They were way to many chapters and they were not interesting at all. You did not really want to keep on reading.
Holy bagumba this book is very good I could not stop reading it this is a book about adventure and it is very funny I love it
This book is one of my favorite books ever. It has lot's of comedy and i like how some chapters are comics. also I like the Ulysses character who is a fauna character. But the human girl character adopted ulysses the animal character. I really love the mother because she is funny.
This book is very humorous. It is about a squirrel named Ulysses that has super powers who is friends with a cynic. The cynic's mom is the so called villain who wants to kill the squirrel. The cynic's name is Flora. She keeps telling her mom that Ulysses has super powers but of course she doesn't believe her. I recommend this book for ages 8-13 because it has the right difficulty of words for that age.