Blue Skies

ISBN-10: 1534446060
ISBN-13: 9781534446069
Author: Bustard, Anne
Interest Level: 3-7
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: March 2020

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 224

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Interest Level

Grades 3-7

Reading Level

Guided Reading: W
Lexile: 630L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.2
Accelerated Reader Points: 5.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Stepfamilies

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying

Description
Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother-the best matchmaker in the whole county-is responsible for thirty-nine of them. Now, Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own. The war ended three years ago, but Glory Bea's father never returned home from the front in France. Glory Bea understands what Mama and Grams and Grandpa say-that Daddy died a hero on Omaha Beach-yet deep down in her heart, she believes Daddy is still out there. When the Gladiola Gazette reports that one of the boxcars from the Merci Train (the "thank you" train)-a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of France-will be stopping in Gladiola, she just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo. But miracles, like people, are always changing, until at last they find their way home.