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''Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures'' is a children's novel by American author Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by K. G. Campbell. It was published in 2013 by Candlewick Press. It is the story of Flora Belle Buckman and a superhero squirrel named Ulysses. The illustrations include full-page and small pencil drawings, together with comic-book panels describing the squirrel's adventures. ==Summary== Self-proclaimed cynic, Flora, spends her time reading comic books and struggling to understand her parents’ recent divorce. She is jolted into action when the neighbor runs over a squirrel named Ulysses with a vacuum cleaner. The squirrel’s brush with death causes him to develop superpowers. Flora explains to Ulysses that he must use his newfound powers to right wrongs, fight injustice, or something. The neighbor further introduces Ulysses to poetry and his mind is awoken to profound nature of words. Flora’s mother fears talking to a squirrel is a sign that something is wrong with her daughter and conspires to kill Ulysses for her daughter’s own good. Meanwhile, Flora and Ulysses head out for a day with Flora’s father and find themselves on an adventure involving giant doughnuts, a cat attack, a boy struck blind by tragedy and a doctor of philosophy who tells stories about uncertainty and hope. When Flora confronts her mother about her desire to kill Ulysses a shouting match erupts in which Flora comes to believe her mother doesn’t love her. Ulysses understands otherwise and writes a poem to explain Flora and her mother’s real emotions but Flora’s mother kidnaps him before the poem can be read. Flora puts together a crack team to rescue Ulysses, who has already escaped leaving Flora’s mother to read his poem. The cast reunites in the father’s apartment building where Flora’s cynical exterior is cracked for good as she realizes her parents truly love her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flora & Ulysses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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