Laura Beth Caldwell: 2 books

A tinker in Victorian Dublin, Patrick Dunleavy is drowning in mediocrity. That all changes when a mysterious gentleman walks into his shop with five talking dolls in need of tuning. Paddy soon discovers that these haunted dolls have something more to recite than nursery rhymes--they have messages...

"I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along..." —from Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume Whether...