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195 pp.
| Front/Cricket |
October, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-8126-2944-2$$15.95
(2)
4-6
Eleven-year-old Maddie suspects her new pen pal, the oddly anachronistic Pearl, is a ghost. But it's Maddie's compulsive rituals and her correspondence with Pearl that help her cope with her mother's death three years earlier and with her beekeeping father's engagement to a gregarious librarian. Beekeeping information is smoothly integrated into the narrative and helps establish the quiet mood and rural setting.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2001