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One for the Murphys

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.32 | 24383 Users | 2685 Reviews

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Title	:	One for the Murphys
Author	:	Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	May 10th 2012 by Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin Group for Young Readers (USA)
Categories	:	Realistic Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Young Adult. Fiction. Family

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Twelve-year-old Carley Connors can take a lot. Growing up in Las Vegas with her fun-loving mother, she's learned to be tough. But she never expected a betrayal that would land her in a foster care. When she's placed with the Murphys, a lively family with three boys, she's blindsided. Do happy families really exist? Carley knows she could never belong in their world, so she keeps her distance. It's easy to stay suspicious of Daniel, the brother who is almost her age and is resentful she's there. But Mrs. Murphy makes her feel heard and seen for the first time, and the two younger boys seem determinded to work their way into her heart. Before she knows it, Carley is protected the boys from a neighbourhood bullly and even teaching Daniel how to play basketball. Then just when she's feeling like she could truly be one of the Murphys, news from her mother shakes her world.

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Original Title:	One for the Murphys
ISBN:	0399256156 (ISBN13: 9780399256158)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.lyndamullalyhunt.com/book_murphys.php
Setting:	Glastonbury, Connecticut(United States)
Literary Awards:	South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Junior Book (2015), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee for Grades 6-8 (2015), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2014), Tassy Walden Award, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2012) Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2015)

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An often funny and also very touching novel about a girl forced into foster care when she and her mother are hurt by her mother's new husband, ONE FOR THE MURPHYS is a beautiful book that reminds us that as much bad as there is in the world, there is equal good. Carley, a street-smart girl who didn't go to school and used to get her clothes from donation bins, uses sarcasm and avoidance to deal with her foster placement in the home of the Murphy family, where she is treated kindly and with

It was a very good book!! I read it over summer.

I started ONE FOR THE MURPHYS as a read-aloud with my 12-year-old daughter. We'd barely gotten started when I had to leave home for a few days; by the time I got home again she had finished it. ("I'm sorry, Mom. I just couldn't stop reading.") And now, after a heartbreaking and spirit-lifting single-sitting read over the Thanksgiving holiday (I couldn't stop reading either!), I've added the book to the very top of my gift-giving list for the holiday season. It's one of those books I wish I could

This is a beautiful book. Overwhelming, emotionally gripping, surprisingly touching. I did not expect to find my emotions running up and down different octaves like piano notes. YA reading, for tweens. But just as heartwarming and uplifting for adults. It's a short book, a quick read, but one that had me leave everything to finish it. I just could not walk away. After closing the book I wished reality was not so removed from fiction in this case. If all foster parents were like the Murphies,

***SPOILER ALERT*** If you have not read the book and don't want to know what happens, you should not read this review. Okay, I am very conflicted about this book - just as conflicted as Carley Connors is about being a foster child. I highly recommend this book, especially to foster parents or people who are considering becoming foster parents or people who have regular contact with foster children. However, from this review, you might not think so. What I dislike about the book appears to

Sometimes a book needs a detailed write up to get others to read it. Then there are books, like this book, where you just need to say read this and that is all!

Sometimes a book needs a detailed write up to get others to read it. Then there are books, like this book, where you just need to say read this and that is all!