Tom Birdseye

A Tough Nut to Crack (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cassie's father and grandfather don't get along, but despite their differences, Cassie is resolved to bring her family back together, no matter what it takes Cassie Bell's father and grandfather had a falling-out years ago, so Cassie has never had the chance to meet her grandfather. But when her dad gets a call saying that Grandpa Ruben is in the hospital, the family heads off to Kentucky to make sure he's all right. Grandpa Ruben is nothing like what Cassie expected. From the way her dad talks about him, she pictured a mean old man, but it turns out that her grandfather is lively, goofy, and loving. Still, Cassie's dad and Grandpa Ruben can barely be in the same room with each other. A plan slowly starts to form in Cassie's mind: What if she could find a way to get them back together again? Cassie doesn't know why her dad and grandpa don't speak anymore, but she's determined to find out. If only they weren't so stubborn! She wants to have her grandfather in her life, and she's going to solve this problem whether these two like it or not!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
• Seitenzahl: 115
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497645950
• Artikelnr.: 44329553

Autorenporträt

As a kid, Tom Birdseye wasdecidedly uninterested in writing-or any academic aspect of school, for that matter-never imagining that he would eventually become a published author.And yet, nineteen titles later-novels, picture books, and nonfiction-that is exactly what has happened. His work hasbeen recognized for its excellence by the International Reading Association, Children's Book Council, National Council of Social Studies, Society of School Librarians International,Oregon Library Association, and Oregon Reading Association,among others. Combined, his books have either won or been finalists for state children's choice awardsforty-three times.Life, it seems, is full of who'd-a-thought-its.He lives and writes in Corvallis, Oregon, but launches mountaineering expeditions to his beloved Cascades on a regular basis.