Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu

A Kind of Spark is a heart-warming novel about family loss, responsibility, and the stories and dreams that unite generations. Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, who is becoming forgetful and spending time talking to his statue of Guan Yin. Lizzie is worried about him but doesn't know what to do. She comes up with a plan to take Wai Gong on a trip to Blackpool to the Tower Ballroom, where he longed to go to dance with his late wife, Grandma Kam. With the help of her friends Chi and Tyler, some ingenious costumes, and an older brother with a beat-up Mini, Lizzie might just make it and help Wai Gong get better.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 09 June 2022
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark is a heartwarming tale of family loss, responsibility, and the stories and dreams that unite generations. Alex Cotter's The House on the Edge is a heart-warming novel from the Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author of DANNY CHUNG DOES NOT DO MATHS. Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, who is becoming forgetful and spending a lot of time talking to his statue of Guan Yin, the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness, and mercy. Lizzie is worried about Wai Gong but doesn't know what to do to help him.

To rekindle Wai Gong's love for dancing and see if he can find his mojo again, Lizzie comes up with a madcap plan to take him on the trip of a lifetime to Blackpool - to the Tower Ballroom, where he always longed to go, to dance with his late wife, Grandma Kam. With the help of her friends Chi and Tyler, some ingenious costumes, and an older brother with a beat-up Mini, Lizzie might just make it - and maybe she will be able to help Wai Gong get better after all.

A moving, humorous, and uplifting intergenerational story for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and Benjamin Dean.

Weight: 184g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800781610