Written by: Sharon Creech
First line: Peoples are strange!
Why you should read this book: The angel has been hanging out in this sleepy town in Switzerland for a long, long time, never entirely sure what its purpose might be, or how to fulfill it, or literally anything about being an angel, but the angel is basically content with existence until the day an American girl moves into the tower where it lives. Zola, unlike most humans, can see the angel, and unlike the angel, Zola has very specific ideas about what angels are supposed to do, and, being American, has no compunction about explaining what those things are and demanding action. With Zola's eye for social justice and the angel's ability to influence the course of human behavior, life is about to improve for everyone in this part of the Swiss Alps in an inspirational story that reminds us what it is to be human and what it is to be divine.
Why you shouldn't read this book: Although the author includes specific notes about how and why the angel's imperfect voice is written as it is, I couldn't help but constantly feel like the angel seemed to talk exactly like J.Lo from Adam Rex's The True Meaning of Smekday, which was a little distracting.
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