From award-winning author Sarah Weeks comes the sweet story of a girl learning to cope with the loss of her mother. Caroline never knew her mother. She died just after Caroline was born, and it's been just her and her father for nearly eleven years now. Compared to the stories she's heard of her mother's piano skills and remarkable personality, Caroline feels completely unremarkable. And then her father starts acting mysterious. Determined to figure out what's wrong, Caroline follows some leads to a nail salon, where she makes new friends, and even finds an old one from her mother's past. But friends aren't enough when Caroline discovers that she's going to get a new stepmother, one she detests. What Caroline wishes for more than anything . . . is to have her mother to talk to. So much for an eleventh birthday surprise, right? Told with a generous helping of heart and humour as only Sarah Weeks can, Honey tells the sweet story of a girl whose eleventh birthday brings the most important gift of all.
Honey
Year
2015
Pages
160
Audience
children
Description
From award-winning author Sarah Weeks comes the sweet story of a girl learning to cope with the loss of her mother. Caroline never knew her mother. She died just after Caroline was born, and it's been just her and her father for nearly eleven years now. Compared to the stories she's heard of her mother's piano skills and remarkable personality, Caroline feels completely unremarkable. And then her father starts acting mysterious. Determined to figure out what's wrong, Caroline follows some leads to a nail salon, where she makes new friends, and even finds an old one from her mother's past. But friends aren't enough when Caroline discovers that she's going to get a new stepmother, one she detests. What Caroline wishes for more than anything . . . is to have her mother to talk to. So much for an eleventh birthday surprise, right? Told with a generous helping of heart and humour as only Sarah Weeks can, Honey tells the sweet story of a girl whose eleventh birthday brings the most important gift of all.
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