![]() ![]() The layered story is narrated by 11-year-old Tess Brooks, a smart, earnest girl who loves her island home and is determined to keep things they way they’ve always been, whether through wishing, working or some combination thereof. The seeming magic of superstition doesn’t just figure into Lord’s life it’s a central element of her heartwarming second novel, Touch Blue. When it’s time to discard a computer monitor, “I peel off and apply it to the new one!” That fortune was still around when Rules was named a 2007 Newbery Honor Book, and it remains with the author today. “But I sold my first novel, Rules, two weeks later.” “I put the fortune on my computer monitor as a joke,” Lord says in an interview from her home in Maine. Happily, those encouraging words turned out to be prescient ones. It says, “Someday your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.” ![]() There’s a slip of paper, pulled from a fortune cookie, taped to Cynthia Lord’s computer monitor. ![]()
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