An American boy lost in a Peruvian market finds himself on a larger-than-life adventure filled with street waifs, medicine girls, jungle theater and the thousand paths that lead to home. Smallfish Clover is a story that gets kids and honors the epic worlds inside them.
Thirteen-year-old Pace’s escapist adventures come to life in this richly crafted and fast-paced novel. Vividly imaginative and enchantingly conceived, Smallfish Clover is a magic carpet ride into a captivating new Wonderland. Shaw’s nimble writing turns young Pace’s adventure into a lucid dream. —The Booklife Prize
Shaw deftly evokes the wonder of an ordinary individual’s ability to affect changes beyond his wildest dreams. —Foreword Magazine
Heather Shaw paints a beautiful masterpiece of a story... This is powerful, reality-based fiction—albeit of a reality few of us know, and one which no boy should ever have to face head-on the way Smallfish does. —Daniel Jolley
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