FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anna, a twelve-year-old girl with strong survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is not at all sure he wants to stay there.
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From the Back Cover:
Red-headed, freckle-faced Terry Calder has returned to the swamps of the Everglades, where he lives with his mother and his younger sister. But the time his idealistic father is ina the thick of World War II, and Terry must become the man of the family. He also has to become the legs for a paraplegic veteran named Deke, the conscience for a confused, part-Indian boy named Ossie, and sometimes the mind for a gentle freind who accidentally brings trouble to them all. The sequel to SUMMER LIGHTNING.
About the Author:
Adrian Fogelin is the author of several novels for middle readers and young adults, including Crossing Jordan and The Real Question. She lives in Florida.
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- PublisherTurtleback
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0613531337
- ISBN 13 9780613531337
- BindingSchool & Library Binding
- Number of pages224
- IllustratorSchultz Suzy
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