Tortilla Sun author-Siri Pettersen witty style

witty style

She turned her hardship into skill by becoming an escape artist--a valuable trait when you belong to a group of magical best friends

and a comic disparity that suggests the ultimate victor in a war is perhaps not who won

offers her new challenges

back in New York

Tortilla Sun author-Siri Pettersen witty styleWhen twelve year old Izzy discovers a beat up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while unpacking in yet another new apartment, she is determined to figure out what it means. What secrets does this old ball have to tell? Her mom certainly isn't sharing anyespecially when it comes to Izzy's father, who died before Izzy was born. But when she spends the summer in her Nana's remote New Mexico village, Izzy discovers long buried secrets that