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Contributor(s): McNicoll, Sylvia (Author)
ISBN: 1459400623     ISBN-13: 9781459400627
Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $12.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2012
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Young Adult Fiction | Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 2012494993
Lexile Measure: 630
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
- Topical - Friendship
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 155146
Reading Level: 4.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Paradise Manor is depressing--the smells are bad and the residents are old. Sunny would much rather be doing her volunteer hours at Salon Teo, but her teacher won't let her. Who says volunteering at a hair salon doesn't benefit the community?

But working with the Alzheimer's patients has a surprising effect on Sunny. Along with Cole, the grandson of one of the residents, she begins to see that the residents don't have much more choice about their lives than she does: what they eat, how they are treated by staff, even what they watch on television. So Sunny does what she can to make the residents happy--even if she has to sometimes break the rules to do it.

When tragedy strikes at Paradise, Sunny's left to make the decision about whether or not to honor a promise that Cole made to his grandmother about her life . . . and her death.

Contributor Bio(s): McNicoll, Sylvia: - Sylvia McNicoll has written twenty-three books for children. Her novels have won the Silver Birch and the Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award. In 2011 she won a City of Hamilton Book Award for YA fiction. She is currently the features editor for Today's Parent Toronto. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.