Take a Chance, Gramps!
by Jean Davies Okimoto 
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Twelve-year-old Jane and her grandfather, both of whom have suffered losses, help each other reach out, make new friends, and change their lives.Tags
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Rounding down because making friends is all too easy for both grandfather and girl. Saying 'hi' in the hallways isn't going to automatically make you popular (more likely approaches are to arrange share homework woes, or give compliments like 'I like your bracelet, bookcover, barette...') and the first widow you ask to dance isn't necessarily going to be the one you pair off with. Also the segue about Gramps needing to learn a lesson about credit cards and infomercials is lame/implausible.
But it's a fun story with its heart in the right place. I would have liked it when I was 9-12.
But it's a fun story with its heart in the right place. I would have liked it when I was 9-12.
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Jean Davies Okimoto is an author and playwright whose books and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Korean, German and Hebrew. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Smithsonian Notable Book, the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, the Washington Governor's Award, and the show more International Reading Association Readers Choice Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Jean Davies Okimoto is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books
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- 800 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
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- PZ7 .O415 .T — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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