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Loose Threads

Lorie Ann Grover

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Seventh grader Kay Garber's happy home is made up of four generations of women: Great Gran Eula; Grandma Margie; Kay's mother, Karine; and Kay. But on the evening Grandma Margie tells her family she has a lump in her breast, Kay's world is changed forever.Struggling with issues of popularity in junior high school, trying to understand her too-perfect mother, dealing with her feelings about friends, and coming to terms with Grandma Margie's cancer diagnosis and illness, Kay is awhirl with questions that have no easy answers. But Kay is a survivor, and as she journeys through these difficult months she comes to a new understanding of the complexities and importance of faith and family.

Told through forthright and perceptive poems in Kay's own voice, "Loose Threads" reverberates with emotion and depth and will leave no reader untouched.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Release: September 01, 2002

ISBN: 0689844190

ISBN 13: 9780689844195

Loose Threads

Lorie Ann Grover

0/5 ( ratings)

Seventh grader Kay Garber's happy home is made up of four generations of women: Great Gran Eula; Grandma Margie; Kay's mother, Karine; and Kay. But on the evening Grandma Margie tells her family she has a lump in her breast, Kay's world is changed forever.Struggling with issues of popularity in junior high school, trying to understand her too-perfect mother, dealing with her feelings about friends, and coming to terms with Grandma Margie's cancer diagnosis and illness, Kay is awhirl with questions that have no easy answers. But Kay is a survivor, and as she journeys through these difficult months she comes to a new understanding of the complexities and importance of faith and family.

Told through forthright and perceptive poems in Kay's own voice, "Loose Threads" reverberates with emotion and depth and will leave no reader untouched.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Release: September 01, 2002

ISBN: 0689844190

ISBN 13: 9780689844195

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