Upon learning that her deceased mother, an artist, went through a "Purple Period," ten-year-old Noonie decides to do the same, hoping that this will bring her archaeologist father home to see her win a school art contest and that the aunt, uncle, and cousin she lives with will come to understand her just a little.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: artists, juvenile fiction, eccentrics and eccentricities, families, fathers and daughters, self-actualization (psychology), fiction