Addie's forever friend / written by Laurie Lawlor ; illustrated by Helen Cogancherry.
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TextPublication details: Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1997.Description: 124 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0807501646
- [Fic] 21
- PZ7.L4189 Ag 1997
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Lawlor, Laurie | 1 | Available | 33111004057457 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Addie Mills knows she is not a brave person. She is afraid to learn to swim. She's nervous around firecrackers. She's very worried that her father will decide to move the whole family from Iowa to Dakota, where it's wild and dangerous.Addie is not like her best friend, Eleanor, who can swim like a fish and is always ready to do something exciting. Now Eleanor has daring plans for the Fourth of July -- will Addie go along?Can Addie and Eleanor be friends forever?Addie's Forever Friend is the prequel to these other books about Addie and her family: Addie Across the Prairie, Addie's Dakota Winter, Addie's Long Summer, and George on His Own. Laurie Lawlor's other books include: Daniel Boone, The Real Johnny Appleseed and How to Survive Third Grade. She lives in Illinois. Helen Cogancherry also illustrated Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?, I Am Not a Crybaby , and I'm Deaf, and It's Okay. She lives in Pennsylvania.
Sequel to: Addie across the prairie.
While her father is looking for a homestead in the Dakotas, Addie and her mother and brothers spend the summer with her aunt and uncle in Sabula, Iowa, where she rescues her best friend during a flood and where her baby sister is born.