Ashes at Grumble Bluff (Part Two in the Grumble Bluff Series)Rank: 58
Backcover Text: Greta has already lived through every child's worst nightmare. Now, another tough challenge confronts her. Will Katherine Anne and Greta triumph over this latest ordeal? In the peaceful sanctuary of a forested ravine, two young girls discovered the power to overcome the tests of childhood. Katherine Anne and Greta found strength and laughter in their unlikely friendship, and that alliance has changed their lives. After surviving a brutal seventh grade year, the girls think that life is surely bound to get better--that the worst is finally behind them. And then Greta's long-lost mother shows up on her doorstep and wants to take her away from everything that matters to her...her home, her beloved grandparents, and most especially, her best friend, Katherine Anne. In the serenity of Grumble Bluff, the teens find renewed strength to face the challenges of adolescence, but will their courage be enough to keep their friendship alive? Or will Greta's mother succeed in taking Greta from her happy home? Growing up is tough. Katherine Anne and Greta are tougher! |
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Stage:
Completed work
Branch:
Fiction
Major form:
Novel
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Primary age group:
Young adult
Genres:
Literary fiction
Classification:
For everyone
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Aw, thanks Doc! You're a sweetheart. I've written a third, and hope to take the girls all the way through High School as they face the very real challlenges of growing up. Hope they'll be in print some day!!
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Kaz
The title alone is enough to make one wish to read. And the reading does not disappoint. Older adults like me can still pretend we're young! There sees to be something profound as well as entertaining in Greta and Katherine Anne's friendship.
In both literary and "real" life, as I have consciously observed both over more than half a century, the friendships of both younger and older women have always seemed to contain elements of trust and openness that too often elude the friendships of men. The phenomenon has long made me a little envious, a little like an outsider.
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