She befriends a girl named Lila, who at first seems nice but then starts complaining a lot, but Dinnie still really likes her. With her older brother in the Air Force after ending up in jail again, her sixteen-year-old sister pregnant and married, and her dad still on the road for yet another home, Dinnie is taken away by her aunt and her husband to Switzerland, where Uncle Max (her uncle) is the new headmaster of an international boarding school.ĭinnie becomes a student at the school, where she makes friends, sees new, exciting things, and has many adventures of her own. Dinnie feels that she has settled into this routine of never having a permanent home until one night, her whole world changes. Keisuke is a Japanese student at the school who is just learning English, so "bloomability" emerged as his linguistic concept of the word "possibility"ĭomenica Santolina Doone, known as Dinnie, has spent most of her life traveling around the United States because her father is transiently employed. The title, "Bloomability", comes from Keisuke, one of Dinnie's friends in the book. This school is inspired by The American School In Switzerland, where Creech taught English. She is given the opportunity to attend a boarding school in Lugano, Switzerland, where the majority of the storyline takes place. Bloomability is a children's book by Sharon Creech, first published in 1998 the main character is Dinnie Doone, a young girl who at the start of the novel lives with her semi- nomadic family in the modern-day United States of America.
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