Angels on the Roof (Laurel-Leaf Books)

It's not Shelby's fault that she's considered one of the "At Risk" kids at school; it's her mother's fault. Shelby doesn't need socks given to her in charity. She doesn't need help on her homework. She just needs someone to talk some sense into her loony mother, who--in between obsessive devotions to dead artist Georgia O'Keeffe--prepares for yet another move. Shelby is tired of her mother's antics and refuses to move anymore. What are they running from anyway? Martha Moore, winner of the Delacorte Prize for her previous book, Under the Mermaid Angel, has composed this novel like a brook: it seeps slowly, at first willy-nilly, but soon gathers strength and finds enough force to etch itself into the hard rock of our hearts--making a canyon where once there was stone. What will it take for Shelby to learn the truth about her mother and their past? When does love stop being "expected" so that it can become the gift that it really is? Shelby might remind readers of one of O'Keeffe's flowers: it's possible to watch her for hours and still not penetrate her depths.