The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City by Jodi Kendall

Agent: Alexander Slater, Trident Media Group. The minute Josie holds Hamlet, she feels an.

Then, on Thanksgiving Day, her older brother, Tom, brings home a pink, squirmy bundle wrapped in an old football jersey-a piglet he rescued from a nearby farm. Jodi Kendall has written a charming book with powerful lessons about family and animal. Josie Shilling's family is too big, their cramped city house is too small, and she feels like no one's ever on her side. With echoes of Charlotte’s Web, Kendall’s sweet story of family, friendship, and growing pains should charm a broad range of readers. The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City : Kendall, Jodi, Campion. Debut author Kendall’s treatment of the more mature concerns in Josie’s life, including her family’s financial worries, are handled lightly, but with care. The members of the large, chaotic Shilling family are full of entertaining quirks and idiosyncrasies, but it’s the growing understanding between the Josie and her sisters that steals the show, particularly her recognition that one of her older sisters, Sarah, feels just as lonely and overlooked as she does. But it isn’t long before Josie realizes that although her family loves Hamlet, the city isn’t where he belongs simultaneously, she comes to see that her future in gymnastics may be fleeting and that another interest might be as rewarding. She recruits her friends to persuade her family that the pig, named Hamlet, should stay permanently at the Shillings’ cramped city home in Ohio. The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City is a heartwarming tale of family, belonging, and growing bigger when you’ve always felt small. Eleven-year-old Josie Shilling immediately falls in love with the piglet her college-age brother, Tom, rescues and brings home at Thanksgiving.

The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City by Jodi Kendall