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  <title><![CDATA[Loose Threads]]></title>
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  <default_description> &lt;P&gt;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.&lt;P&gt;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.&lt;P&gt;Told through forthright and perceptive poems in Kay's own voice, &lt;I&gt;Loose Threads&lt;/I&gt; reverberates with emotion and depth and will leave no reader untouched.&lt;P&gt; </default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lorie Ann Grover]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wrote Loose Threads to revisit our family's experience with  breast cancer. The verse format carried the emotion and intensity well. This books stands in memory of my grandmother, great grandmother, and alongside my mother, and me. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very touching. Lorie Ann Grover managed to convey such complex emotions and themes through simple words, and that's what made this book unique for me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kay's grandma has breast cancer, and while the drama of junior high swirls around her, she feels separate and alone.  Emotionally honest, painful, but ultimately full of hope.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A girl comes to terms with her grandmother's impending death from breast cancer.   A novel in verse.]]></body>
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