Product Details
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, December 2002
Trade Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 068983442X
ISBN-13: 9780689834424
Grades: 7 and up
In this trio of stories by two-time Newbery Honor author Bruce Brooks, cousins devise a fiendishly clever way to circumvent the law and give a loved one a proper burial; a boy begrudgingly tries to fulfill his dying uncle's last wishes; and a young girl must learn to unburden herself of the weight of grief.
Each of Brooks's characters is searching for a way to deal with what's been left behind -- all have grief to be shared, and personal discoveries to be made.