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Gramps's farm isn't the same after Grandma's death, but slowly Mags and Cody work to recreate her spirit by bringing back some of the things she loved.

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A little girl and her brother go stay with their grandpa on the farm for the summer. This summer was different then before because their grandmother has passed away. The farm has become covered with weeds and her grandpa sold parts of it because he says its to hard to look at now that his wife is gone. Her brother noticed one day that the bluebird's that use to sit on the fence weren't there anymore. He wonders if it cause his grandmother isn't around anymore. The girl remembers her grandmother telling her she had a deal with the bluebird's if she kept certain flowers in the garden the would always come around. The next morning the girl goes and digs up the weeds and plants those flowers and not before long the bluebirds return.
Genre: Fiction
Audience: Pre K - 3
This is a story about how the protagonist Mags and her brother Cody design ways to bring the bluebirds back to their garden after her grandmother passes away.
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Deborah Hopkinson is the author of over 40 highly acclaimed nonfiction books, including NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor and Jane Addams Honor Book Shutting Out the Sky: Carter G. Woodson Honor Book UP Before Daybreak; Sibert Honor Book and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist Titanic: Voices from the Disaster: Sydney Taylor Notable Book show more Courage Defiance: Dive!; D-Day; Sydney Taylor Notable Book We Has to Be Brave; and We Must Not Forget. Deborah lives with her family near Portland, Oregon. show less

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Andersen, Bethanne (Illustrator)

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Children's Books, Picture Books
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570Natural sciences & mathematicsBiologyLife Science: Biology, Cells & Genetics
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PZ7 .H778125 .BLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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