

LC call number PZ7. 128047 Cataloging source DLC Weeks, Sarah Dewey number Index no index present Intended audience Age 10+ Interest level YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2005Īwards note Young Hoosier Book Award Winner 2008.Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2004.Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Books, 2008.William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas) for Sixth-Eighth Grade, 2007.South Carolina Book Award, Junior Books, 2007.Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2007.

Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), Young Adult category, 2009.Kentucky Bluegrass Award for Grades 6-8, 2006.When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past Member of Language eng Summary Although she lives an unconventional lifestyle with her mentally disabled mother and their doting neighbor, Bernadette, Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction.Identity (Philosophical concept) - Juvenile fiction.


She is assisted by strangers she meets on the way, and all the while she ponders the nature of truth, whether it is always knowable, and whether it is always worth knowing.Label So B. She travels alone by bus from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York to visit the group home in the photographs and probe its tight-lipped manager for answers. Before stumbling upon an old disposable camera, Heidi has no information of her family or origin other than that her mother's 23-word vocabulary includes the word "soof," which she assumes holds some meaning she longs to uncover. She is taken care of by her agoraphobic next-door neighbor, Bernadette, at whose door the two appeared when Heidi was about a week old. Heidi DeMuth ( Talitha Bateman) is a twelve-year-old girl with a mentally disabled mother, but who is otherwise extremely lucky. It was released in April 2017 by Good Deed Entertainment. The film stars Talitha Bateman, Jessie Collins, Alfre Woodard, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Dash Mihok, and Cloris Leachman. It is a 2016 American drama film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and written by Garry Williams, based on the 2004 novel of same name by Sarah Weeks.
