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Layla, Queen Of Hearts (2010)

by Glenda Millard(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374343608 (ISBN13: 9780374343606)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

series

Kingdom of Silk

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 lovely sort of sadness. It was as fragrant as the flowers in Nana's garden and as sweet as the last bite of a pink jelly-cake." (19)
review 2: Glenda Millard has created a sweet place for her gentle characters. These are gentle little books for readers just leaping into chapter books. Here, Layla knows that for the school's senior citizen's day she can borrow Griffin's grandmother Nell- but she desperately wants her own Senior- Nell introduces her to Amelie. When the relationship becomes ch... moreallenging, Layla does not give up, her generosity of spirit and patience win the day in the end. less

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