{"product_id":"9781480455498","title":"Is That You, Miss Blue?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA teenager whose parents have separated tries to adapt to life at a boarding school and make a fresh start in a strange new place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter her mother runs off with her much-younger boyfriend, fourteen-year-old Flanders is shipped off to a boarding school in Virginia. On the train, she meets Carolyn Cardmaker, a preacher’s daughter who will become her best friend. She also meets Ernestine Blue.\u003cbr\u003eMiss Blue is Flanders’s faculty advisor at the Charles School, where each residence hall is named after a Charles Dickens novel. But Miss Blue’s strict disciplinarian persona may be concealing a tragic past. As Flanders adjusts to life at school—which includes a deaf roommate and a terrifying blind date—she discovers surprising things about Miss Blue . . . and herself.\u003cbr\u003eA coming-of-age novel that transcends the ordinary in its perceptive, empathetic depiction of Flanders and the people in her life, \u003ci\u003eIs That You, Miss Blue? \u003c\/i\u003etakes us into a world where not everyone can be taken at face value—and where strangers can become unexpected friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media Teen \u0026 Tween","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125731934448,"sku":"9781480455498","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480455498_p0.jpg?v=1763619763","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480455498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}