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Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780735229945 | Middle Grade (10 and up) Pre-Order
Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780735229969 | Middle Grade (10 and up) Pre-Order
Mar 02, 2021 | 330 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up) Pre-Order
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Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780735229945 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780735229969 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
Mar 02, 2021 | ISBN 9780593341599 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
330 Minutes
It’s been almost a year since Sila’s mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places. A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.
Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and spent her childhood living in Holland; Istanbul, Turkey; Washington, D.C.; Berkeley, California; and Eugene, Oregon. After graduating from Wellesley College and spending some time as an advertising copywriter, she began… More about Holly Goldberg Sloan
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