Books by Glenda Millard
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review 1: The protagonist, Skip, has run from the foster care system and is living on the streets. He becomes a friend with an older homeless man named Billy. When war breaks out, they try to leave the war ravaged city. Sheltered in the library, they find a young boy, Max, whom they take w...
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review 1: This was not the book I thought it was. It is dystopic, it is also a runaway novel, but mainly it is a book about relationships. Skip (age 11) meets Billy (older, not identified, but old enough to pass as grandfather)on the streets as a runaway, and they bond, but only loosely ...
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review 1: This is a story by an Australian author and illustrator patterned after the structure of The House That Jack Built. Lovely and rich, full-bleed illustrations from endpaper to endpaper. Bright colors decorate Isabelle's many friends as they help her year-round in the garden. I can...
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review 1: A delightful and sensitive story about a little girl who learns that love and miracles turn the sadness of missing someone who has passed away into the sweetest of loving memories. A stunning story.Layla's sadness a year after her nana's death:"In an odd way though, it was a love...
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review 1: I have never been moved to tears by a children's book but this one did it. A beautifully told story of a young boy abandoned by his mother, and how he finds a new home with an unusual but amazingly loving family. Adult readers might generally find the Silk family too good to be t...