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122 pp.
| Abrams/Amulet |
March, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8109-8424-0$14.95
(2)
1-3
Illustrated by
Matthew Cordell.
Eight-year-old Eleanor is bereft when her babysitter moves away; Eleanor's new babysitter sensitively gives her room to grieve. Sternberg uses short sentences spaced on the pages in very short lines, like poetry, and keeps the twenty-seven chapters very brief. The first-person narration and the details of Eleanor's emotional journey will draw readers in, while Cordell's line drawings add humor.