Candlewick Press
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Language
English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Description
"While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina Carol is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing...