Available in a paperback edition! The beloved 2014 Newbery Medal winner by former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but selfdescribed cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelt poetry and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From#1 New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laughoutloud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting format a novel interspersed with comicstyle graphic sequences and fullpage illustrations, all rendered in blackandwhite by artist K. G. Campbell.