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Product Summary
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company
ISBN-10: 0880925450
ISBN-13: 9780880925457
Buy.com Sku: 31177798
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.5H x 5.5L x 0.25T
Pages:
91
Age Range:
14 to College
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| When Melissa's father left her without a word of explanation or even a good-bye, Melissa was forced to leave their Manhattan apartment and the hustle and bustle and beautiful places of the great metropolis. She was packed off to move in with Aunt Katherine, who lived in Campbell's Corners, Ontario. It was a dot in the middle of nowhere on the Canadian map. Worse, Aunt Katherine didn't want her. That seemed clear from a letter to her father that Melissa found. "Sending Melissa to me is not a good idea. How could she be welcomed under the circumstances?" her Aunt had written. But, what were the "circumstances," and, knowing them, why did her father insist on sending her to the tiny town where she would not be liked? For seventh-grader Melissa, life was becoming as full of problems and secrets as a soap opera. Author Glenna Sloan keeps the action and the mystery moving while clearly defining the underpinnings of friendship and family relationships: caring, communicating, valuing and being supportive. Professor and Chair in the Department of Elementary Education at Queens College, New York, Dr. Sloan directs and teaches in the Children's Literature Specialization within the Master's Program. She is a recognized author in academia, an active committeewoman and board member of the National Council Teachers of English, and on the Board of Directors of the Children's Literature Association of the Modern Language Association. Glenna Sloan has won the International Reading Association's 2001 Arbuthnot Award for an outstanding teacher of children's and young people's literature. She is also the author of the young adult novel, Stealing Time, which was a Kansas State Reading Circle Selection1999-2000. |
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From the Publisher:
When Melissa's father sends her to stay with her unwilling aunt in Campbell's Corners, a small town in Ontario, she must adjust to a country school where the other pupils want nothing to do with her, especially Jennifer Clarke, whose father does not get along with Melissa's aunt.When Melissa's father sends her to her unwilling aunt in Ontario, she must adjust to a country school where the others want nothing to do with her, especially Jennifer Clarke, whose father does not get along with Melissa's aunt."When Melissa's father left her without a word or explanation or even a goodbye, Melissa was forced to leave their Manhattan apartment and the hustle and bustle and beautiful places of the great metropolis. She was packed off to move in with Aunt Katherine, who lived in Campbell's Corners, Ontario. It was a dot in the middle of nowhere on the Canadian map."--P. [4] of cover.When Melissa's father sends her to her unwilling aunt in Ontario, she must adjust to a country school where the others want nothing to do with her, especially Jennifer Clarke, whose father does not get along with Melissa's aunt. |
