Adult Paperbacks Main Level - KRING
11-year-old Lucy McGowan and her twin brother Milo have genius IQ's. They are home schooled by their mother, Tess, in Chicago. When Tess's father's health declines, the family goes to Tess's childhood home in Wisconsin to help out. Tess has always refused to talk to the children about their father, and they know equally little about their grandfather. Lucy dreams of having a father figure in her life, and loves her new-found grandfather too. She is very perceptive, though, and realizes that there are secrets between her mother and her grandfather. Lucy finds some old journals of her mother's, and puts the pieces together of her grandfather's abusive past - this old man that she has come to adore. She begins to understand why her mother has been hesitant to bring a father figure into their lives, but still yearns for it. Sandra Kring's books are all wonderfully emotional with precocious children characters that readers love.
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