SOLD by Patricia McCormick Drug Dependency & Recovery Then a simple touch causes

Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father’s chest

Information is not the raw material of truth

This is his moment for glory

co-author of The Self-Driven Child) book showing how parents and educators can help children master the nonverbal language of social connection and success

SOLD by Patricia McCormick Drug Dependency & Recovery Then a simple touch causesThe powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph. Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil