With the help of pint-sized heroine Vivienne Small, Tuesday will need all her wit, courage, perseverance and imagination in order to get to The End and be reunited with the people she loves. They enter the magical world where stories come from, a mysterious and unpredictable world, full of real danger and heart-stopping adventure.

In search of Serendipity, Tuesday and her faithful dog Baxterr soon find themselves on a very dangerous mission. But when Tuesday knocks on her door, she discovers her mother is missing! A very famous writer, who has locked herself away in her writing room to finish the final book in her best-selling series for children. Tuesday McGillycuddy loves stories – and her mother is a writer. This one is a Global Read Aloud contender for 2015. I loved the message of the book and cannot wait to hand it to students.īottomline: A must add for any classroom 3rd grade and up. The book offers adventure, magic, and a heroine who may not always know the answer but continues toward The End no matter how hard her journey may become. Which students will read this book and make it one of their favorites. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from. While there are many things that I love about the book, it was how clearly I knew who I could pass this book on to. When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog, Baxterr, discover that Tuesdays motherthe famous author Serendipity Smithhas gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. Angelica Banks, who is really two authors, Heather Rose and Danielle Wood, has spun a masterful tale of adventure and finding ones place. I received this book as an advance copy with the specific purpose of looking at it as a possible Global Read Aloud contender and boy was I happy I did.

Finding serendipity by angelica banks