Pub Date: April 23, 2024
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2022045099
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.90" H x 8.40" L x 5.70" W ( 0.65 lbs) 208 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship | Historical | Holocaust | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries | Girls & Women | Family | Multigenerational | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance | Mental Health
Description: Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
Brief description:
Lois Lowry is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
Review Quotes:
"[A]musing, and poignat, details...prevent the story from turning maudlin by staying true to one idiosyncratic and well-drawn child's voice and perspective--and through Lowry-esque observations on the equally well-rounded, well-meaning, and imperfect secondary cast of characters." - Horn Book (starred review)
[T]his intergenerational-friendship tale [is] an appealing choice for middle-graders. - Booklist