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119 pp.
| HarperCollins/Tegen |
February, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-06-052297-1$14.99
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4-6
MacLachlan traces the story of ten-year-old Jake's relationship with his grandfather, Billy. This is a farming family, and Billy, aged eighty-eight, still lives on the land where he was born. The story addresses time-sculpted themes--the bond between a child and a grandparent, death and connection to the natural world--and MacLachlan gives them her particular stamp of plain speaking and poetry.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2012