Frances Bloom Picks a Family (Frances Bloom, #1)New series by award winning author Katrina Nannestad with black and white illustrations. Frances finds her new family a large bear and a garden gnome. When Frances Bloom posts her bossy parents in a large box to the South Sandwich Islands, her schoolteacher, Ms Thistle, declares that she cannot live alone. To avoid being sent away to Bleak Island Home for Unwanted Children and Dogs, Frances must choose a new family quick smart. But as hard as Frances