The Creakers Immigration & Refugees • 2015 Los Angeles Times

• 2015 Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Guide long-listed

she aces an audition for a play at a local theater

Shoogy left home with all her jeans still in the washer because she couldn’t think of a reason to stay

and all the townspeople run for their lives and the lives of their children

The Creakers Immigration & Refugees • 2015 Los Angeles TimesHardcover Where have all the grown ups gone, and why? Lucy finds the answers under her bed. Suddenly left to their own devices, the children of Whiffington Town quickly devolve into a bewildered mobexcept for 11 year old Lucy Dungston. Unwillingly finding herself cast in the role of "the girl who knows what to do," she determines to find out "what the jiggins is going on." As it turns out, the garbage loving, under the bed Creakers have bundled the