| Description |
181 pages ; 22 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Note |
Ages 8-12. |
| Summary |
Rydr is on a train heading east, leaving California, where her gramma can't take care of her anymore, and traveling to Chicago to live with an unknown relative. She brings with her a suitcase, memories both happy and sad, and a box containing something very important. As Rydr meets her fellow passengers and learns their stories, her own past begins to emerge. And as much as Rydr may want to forget about her life in California, on the train she finds that maybe her past can help her deal with her present. And maybe hope and forgiveness are all around her and, most important, within her, if she's willing to look for it. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.4 5.0 187600. |
| Awards |
Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Subject |
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Railroad travel -- Juvenile fiction.
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Children of drug addicts -- Juvenile fiction.
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Absentee fathers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grief in children -- Juvenile fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780062455734 (hardcover) |
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0062455737 (hardcover) |
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