***Fish in a Tree* meets *The Thing About Jellyfish* in this heartfelt middle grade debut about long-buried secrets, the power of memory, and the bond between a girl and her gram.** All Lulu Carter wants is to be seen. But her parents are lost in their own worlds, and Lulu has learned the hard way
The Memory Keeper
โ Scribed by Jennifer Camiccia
- Publisher
- Aladdin
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Edition
- First Aladdin hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1534439552
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Amy Cloud at Aladdin has bought North American rights to Jennifer Camiccia's middle grade debut, The Memory Keeper. When 12-year-old Lulu Carter develops a photographic memory at the same time her beloved Gram begins to lose hers, she blames herself. Lulu becomes obsessed with a finding that posits that memory loss can be attributed to an unaddressed trauma, and goes about excavating her grandmother's personal history in order to try to save her. Publication is set for fall 2019; Stacey Glick at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret negotiated the deal.
โฆ Subjects
Alzheimer's disease -- Fiction
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