The Great Unexpected Author:Sharon Creech Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town -- like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn... more » boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed -- three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy -- and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever.« less