Carley's mother is in the hospital after a savage beating by Carley's stepfather, and while Carley has forgotten some details of that night, she partly blames herself for what happened. When 12-year-old Carley Conners is put into foster care, she is angry and distrustful of the picture-perfect Murphy family. Winner of the Tassy Walden Award for New Voice in Children's Literature She is a character not to be missed or forgotten." - Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming From the first page, I was drawn into Carley's story. "Hunt's writing is fearless and One For The Murphys is a story that is at once compassionate, thought-provoking and beautifully told. She's not really a Murphy, but the gifts they've given her have opened up a new future. Despite her resistance, the Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong-until her mother wants her back and Carley has to decide where and how to live. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household.
But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. The backstory reveals that one night Dennis blamed Carley when her mother fell in the kitchen.From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Fish in a Tree!Ĭarley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick.
In Las Vegas, she was on a basketball team and went to school however, after the move to Connecticut, her mother didn’t enroll her in school, saying that she’d learn more directly from “living life” (23).Ĭarley feels that her mother chose poorly in marrying a new husband, Dennis. Carley loves books she reads frequently and enjoys the library. Consequently, Carley displays a quick wit, stubbornness, and a tendency to talk back. In addition, her mother encouraged her to show “strength”: She condoned and even encouraged young Carley’s impertinent remarks to teachers, for example, and would laugh at Carley when she cried. She believes that she’s streetwise and “tough”: Her single mother taught her to keep emotions locked inside and offered her little tenderness and no sense of stability or security, though the two had fun times together. Carley’s characterization intertwines with her experiences.
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