"The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment. There's a slippery Zing, a graceful Zing, and a Zing who runs as fast as a bus. But most significant of all, there's the Zing Family Secret: so immense that it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night. I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes is an entirely new universe unto itself. The story passes among five female characters -- Fancy, Marbie, Cassie, Listen, and Cath -- all of whom are closely connected, as they -- and we -- come to discover. The two youngest heroines, Listen and Cassie, shoulder the biggest role in piecing together the mystery that saves everyone in the end. A grown-up fairytale and a suburban mystery all at once, I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes is about what happens when hope leads to sad and hilarious mistakes and when mistakes lead to hope once again. It's about what happens when you meet a Zing."--Back cover.
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ISBN: 0887847307 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 9780887847301 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description:425 p. ; 23 cm.print
Publisher:Toronto, Ont. : House of Anansi Press, c2004.