Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech crafts a truly endearing story, one
that is imbued with happiness, wonder, and an appreciation for all the
little things that make life big. With beautiful, fresh new cover art,
this is a gem of a book.
In the winding stone tower of the Casa Rosa, in a quiet little village
in the Swiss Alps, lives one very unlikely angel--one that is still
awaiting her instructions from the angel-training center. What happens
to an angel who doesn't know her mission? She floats and swishes from
high above, watching the crazy things that "peoples" say and do. But
when a zany American girl named Zola arrives in town and invades the
Casa Rosa, dogs start arfing, figs start flying through the air, lost
orphans wander in, and the village becomes anything but quiet. And as
Zola and the angel work together to rescue the orphans, they each begin
to realize their purpose and learn that there is magic in the most
ordinary acts of kindness.