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Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'connor
Don't miss Barbara O'Connor's other middle-grade work--like Wish; Wonderland; How to Steal a Dog; Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia; The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester; and more
From an author long recognized for her true Southern voice and heartfelt characters, Greetings from Nowhere, with its four intertwining stories, brings Barbara O'Connor's work to a new level of sophistication. Aggie isn't expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since her husband died, she is all alone with her cat, Ugly, and keeping up with the bills and repairs has become next to impossible. The pool is empty, the garden is overgrown, and not a soul has come to stay in nearly three months. When she reluctantly places a For Sale ad in the newspaper, Aggie doesn't know that Kirby and his mom will need a room when their car breaks down on the way to Kirby's new reform school. Or that Loretta and her parents will arrive in her dad's plumbing company van on a trip meant to honor the memory of Loretta's birth mother. Or that Clyde Dover will answer the For Sale ad in such a hurry and move in with his daughter, Willow, looking for a brand-new life to replace the one that was fractured when Willow's mom left. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that Aggie and her guests find just the friends they need at the shabby motel in the middle of nowhere. This title has Common Core connections.Barbara O'Connor is the author of numerous acclaimed books for children, including Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia; Me and Rupert Goody; and Greetings from Nowhere. She has been awarded the Parents' Choice Gold and Silver Awards, the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Dolly Gray Award, among many honors. As a child, she loved dogs, salamanders, tap dancing, school, and even homework. Her favorite days were when the bookmobile came to town. She was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, and now lives in Duxbury, Massachusetts, a historic seaside village not far from Plymouth Rock.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780374399375 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374399379 |
| Titel | Greetings from Nowhere |
| Autor | Barbara O'connor |
| Serie | Frances Foster Books |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2008-03-18 |
| Seitenanzahl | 198 |
| Preise | Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) (Fiction) 2008, Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2012, Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2010, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2010, Short-listed for Keystone to Reading Book Award (Intermediate) 2010, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Grades 4-6) 2010, Short-listed for Great Stone Face Book Award 2009 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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