While the bread box provides a nice infusion of fantasy, this tale is as much focused on Rebecca’s maturing understanding of her family’s problems as it is on magic. The discoveries Rebecca makes about herself and her relationship with her parents are achingly authentic. But not surprisingly, the magic comes with a significant catch, as magic often does. Initially, this seems like the answer to all her problems: She can wish for attractive clothes to make herself more popular in her new school, or for money that might ease her parents’ problems, or even for the perfect birthday present for her mother, although she continues to seethe at the woman’s self-focus. Almost anything she wishes for immediately appears in it. There, Rebecca discovers a magical bread box.
Rebecca’s mother, fed up with her husband’s lackadaisical attitude, abruptly moves out, taking the teen and her toddler brother from their home in Baltimore to live with their grandmother in Atlanta. Ages 8 12.Twelve-year-old Rebecca realistically deals with the fallout of her parents’ separation, aided (surprisingly) by a magical bread box. Friendship, connection, and understanding are at the heart of this warm, introspective story about the events that shape a person. Through their adventures, Molly's eyes gradually open to the realities outside the hotel walls, while Annie worries about getting home and whether she's changing the future for better or worse. Because Annie knows that Molly will live to old age, they escape Molly's locked room via the fire escape and seize the day.
Molly spends her days cloistered away in her "Lonely Room" because of her asthma she wished for a friend and has no clue that Annie is actually her granddaughter. After a strange storm, however, Annie wakes up 50 years earlier, in 1937, where she meets her grandmother as a curious, kind, and deeply isolated child. When 12-year-old Annie Jaffin and her mother visit Annie's estranged, dying grandmother in the shuttered Baltimore hotel she grew up in, the woman Annie encounters is angry and aggressive. Snyder returns with a story that, like her Bigger Than a Breadbox (2011), offers a relatable heroine and a touch of magic.
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