9 Lessons from the Fictional Women We've Always Wanted to Be

Build Your Own Bottle-Cap Universe

The 10-year-old narrator of The Land of Decoration has the total underdog package: dead mother, weird father, strange religion, school bullies. But Judith McPherson has found a way to make sense of life: a diorama of the universe that she has built in her room, planets, oceans, factories and all. When everything seems to be against you, you could retreat in anger or fear. Or you could collect bottle caps and orange peels and make a new world of your own.

The Land of Decoration
Grace McCleen
Henry Holt and Company

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