Newbery generator

[rachelmanija]

It's been a while since I checked in with the Newbery generator.

The Pink Cloud of Poppy Allerdon

In the beginning, a depressed teenage girl is diagnosed with Crohn's disease after the spread of a new disease that makes your head fall off. Things seem to be looking up when she befriends a boy with a tragic past. But when her new friend reveals their tragic past as the parent of eight children who died in an epidemic, she learns a valuable lesson about pie crust and that con artists ruin people's lives.

Comments

[sholio]

In the beginning, a naïve young armadillo leaps screaming out a window after her parents die within days of each other in unrelated freak accidents,"

That definitely sounds like the start of an Ursula Vernon book.

[mikeda]

There IS "Minor Mage" (published under T. Kingfisher) which has an armadillo familiar. Although the familiar's backstory is considerably more conventional.