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Sparrow
Family sticks with family. That’s the golden rule G’ma taught Kendall. But once G’ma’s gone, Kendall has no family left—except for an aunt G’ma asked for at the end, who Kendall barely remembers. Only Aunt Janet knows what G’ma had in mind, but she never even shows up at the funeral. With child services on Kendall’s case and just 10 days to get her apartment lease renewed,...more
Library Binding, 192 pages
Published
July 11th 2006
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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Kendall lost her entire immediate family in a car accident when she was four. Since then she and her G’ma have been family and G’ma in addition to imparting a love of the blues has instilled in Kendall the concept that family is of utmost importance. High school has been tough for Kendall since she rushes home at lunch and after school to take care of G’ma after she suffered a stroke. In her last semester of high school G’ma dies and Kendall finds that she has an aunt who lives in New Orleans. W...more
Another book that takes inspiration from the biblical quote about God taking care of even the littlest sparrow. This was a quick, easy read and it was enthusiastically received by a struggling reader student. A young girl loses her parents and lives with her ailing grandmother; when grandmother dies, the girl sets off on an adventure to find her long-lost aunt in New Orleans, and finds new bonds in her search.
I found a few errors in this book: she enters her aunt's apartment to f...more
I found a few errors in this book: she enters her aunt's apartment to f...more
So-so story, although a little more sad than most, about an orphan who goes to find the next living relative after her grandmother passes away. The fact that this turns out to be her delinquent aunt who has fled the scene is interesting, as is her automatic bonding with her aunt's neighbors. However, what is unlikely and somewhat sappy is that in the course of a few weeks, the protaganist decided she wants to be legally adopted by these neighbors and stay in New Orleans forever with the new frie...more
Having now read Lucy the Giant, I may come back to this one... but for the way I was invested in LtG from the get-go, I just wasn't with this book. Stay tuned...
Sparrow is about a teenage girl searching for the meaning of home and family. I think the fact that the girl loses her parents and brother and then grandma is a bit cliche, but the story is good and I liked the ending.
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Sherri L. Smith's life can best be summed up geographically. Born in Chicago, IL, she spent her childhood in Staten Island, NY, Washington D.C., and Upstate New York. Her parents divorced when she was twelve. A year later, she moved back to Chicago with her mother and big brother. After high school, it was off to New York City for college, San Francisco for graduate school, and then Los Angeles, t...more
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