Author: lisannalangston

On Christmas Eve, two brothers discover an unusual rock — that hatches into a little alien! Join Dexter, Dougal, and their new intergalactic friend, Gobbledy, in this “engagingly humorous” read that is “hugely entertaining as well as emotionally moving” (Kirkus Reviews).

Publishers Weekly has this to say about TUPELO HONEY. A humorous, unconventional family yarn about a young girl navigating a hardscrabble upbringing in northern Mississippi. Meet Tupelo Honey. She divinely lays out the framework and quirky intricacies of growing up in a house only “slightly better than an orphanage,” her days spent chattering with imaginary friend Moochi, and navigating … navigating sleepovers at her pious, curmudgeonly grandmother Marmalade and mentally unstable Uncle Randall’s ramshackle house. Things change when her mother, a callous, irresponsible junkie, brings home Nash, a paranoid local drug dealer whom Tupelo surprisingly bonds with during treacherous expeditions…