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Road To Tater Hill
Road to Tater Hill
Road To Tater Hill
Edith M. Hemingway
Annie struggles with grief after the death of her newborn sister.Annie can always count on spending summers at her grandparents’. This summer should be even better because Mama is going to have a baby soon. Before Daddy leaves for his Air Force assignment, he gives Annie a journal for summer memories. But now Annie is grieving over the death of her newborn sister. How can she tell Daddy that ever since the baby died, Mama is slipping away? If Annie wrote those words, Mama might stay that way forever. The only comfort Annie finds is in holding a stone she calls her “rock baby.” Then Annie secretly befriends a mysterious woman who helps Annie accept her loss, while Annie hopes to draw her new friend back into the community. But all that is interrupted when a crisis reveals their unlikely alliance and leads to a surprising turn of events.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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This is an adventure/mystery book that is very emotional. As 10 year old Annie Anabel loses her sister, Mary Kate, after a premature birth, her mom is slowly slipping away from her. She even forgets Annie Anabel's birthday. While her dad is in Germany in the Airforce, she must keep her mother from slipping back into what she thought seemed like a coma. While her mother is always sitting in her rocker, never blinking once, Annie Anabel has to find a way to occupy herself, trying not to think about Mary Kate.

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