Flora & Ulysses
core novel 2013 Flora & Ulysses
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.88 (54,247 ratings, collected 2026-10-04) |
| Page count | 240 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780763660406 |
Synopsis
Flora Belle Buckman is ten, a self-declared cynic, and a devoted reader of the comic book The Illuminated Adventures of the Amazing Incandesto!, whose back pages, "Terrible Things Can Happen to You!", have taught her to expect the worst. Then a terrible thing happens next door: her neighbour's new Ulysses Super-Suction Multi-Terrain 2000X vacuum cleaner runs away with Mrs. Tickham and sucks up a squirrel. Flora rescues it, and the squirrel, bald in patches and renamed Ulysses after the machine that nearly killed him, turns out to have been born anew: he can lift the vacuum over his head, fly, understand everything Flora says, and, at her mother's typewriter, write poetry. Flora's romance-novelist mother wants the squirrel gone; Flora, her divorced father, a temporarily blind boy called William Spiver and the squirrel's rescuers form a small, odd alliance to save him, told partly in comic-strip panels.
Where it sits
- Universe: Flora & Ulysses
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Kate DiCamillo
Awards (verified)
- Newbery Medal, 2014: won
Notes
- Full title Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures; Candlewick Press, 24 September 2013, illustrated by K. G. Campbell with comic-strip sequences. A separate story from The Tale of Despereaux.
Sources
- American Library Association
- School Library Journal (A Fuse #8 Production)
- https://theclassroombookshelf.com/2014/02/17/2014-newbery-award-winner-flora-ulysses-the-illuminated-adventures/
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