Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

About this book

Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins as the best superhero stories do with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You! is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew with powers of strength flight and misspelled poetry and that Flora will be changed too as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric endearing characters.