Each little bird that sings / Deborah Wiles.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Orlando : Harcourt, ©2006Edition: First Harcourt paperback editionDescription: ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780152056575
- 0152056572
- 9780756970291
- 0756970296
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist, 2005
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | WILES, DEBORAH | A2 | Available | 33111010806251 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals. But that's not surprising, considering that her family runs the town funeral home. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead--just like that--six months later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or so she thinks. She's more concerned with avoiding her crazy cousin Peach and trying to figure out why her best friend, Declaration, suddenly won't talk to her. Life is full of surprises. And the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.
Deborah Wiles has created a unique, funny, and utterly real cast of characters in this heartfelt, and quintessentially Southern coming-of-age novel. Comfort will charm young readers with her wit, her warmth, and her struggles as she learns about life, loss, and ultimately, triumph.
"Gulliver books."
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 6.0 85982.
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist, 2005