Bloomability
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| Author | Sharon Creech |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Joanna Cotler |
| Released | September 30, 1998 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 288 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-006026-993-6 |
Bloomability is a book written by Sharon Creech about a young girl who lives with her semi-nomadic family in the modern day United States of America. She is given the opportunity to attend a The American School In Switzerland, a boarding school in Switzerland, where the majority of the storyline takes place.
[edit] Plot summary
Dinnie (short for Domenica Santolina) Doone has spent most of her life travelling around the United States because her father feels the constant need to move around. Dinnie feels that she has settled into this routine of never having a permanent home until one night, her whole world changes. With her older brother in the army after ending up in jail again, her older sister pregnant and married, and her dad still on the road, Dinnie is taken away by her maternal aunt and her husband to Switzerland, where Uncle Max (her aunt's husband) is the new headmaster.
Dinne discovers herself while in the Swiss Alps, and, with her friends, she begins to realize the meaning of life itself. She undergoes a change and finally emerges from her bubble that had enclosed her for years.
[edit] Title
The title, "Bloomability", comes from Keisuke, one of Dinnie's friends in the novel. Keisuke is not a native English speaker, so "bloomability" emerged as Keisuke's linguistic concept of the word "possibility".
