Jake [electronic resource]. Audrey Couloumbis.
A heartwarming holiday story from Audrey Couloumbis, the Newbery Honor–winning author of Getting Near to Baby.  With beautiful writing and an endearing young narrator so honest and full of hope that you can't help but fall in love with him, Audrey Couloumbis tells a story, of a young boy and the grandfather that he’s just getting to know, that will make readers laugh and cry and, most of all, appreciate the gift of family. It's a few days before Christmas when ten-year-old Jake's mom breaks her leg, ending up in the hospital. For as long as Jake can remember, it's been just him and his mom. So with no one else to look after him, the hospital contacts the gruff granddad that Jake only knows through awkward twice-a-year phone calls. When Granddad shows up, he's nothing like Jake expected. And he brings a dog with him—a nightmare dog, Jake thinks at first. But as Jake gets to know his grandfather and a makeshift family of friends and neighbors comes together around him and his mom, he realizes that this might not be such a bad Christmas after all.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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- Target Audience Note:
- Text Difficulty 2 - Text Difficulty 3MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)4 ATOS Level620 Lexile.
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- Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and font size, spaces between paragraphs, sentences, words, and letters, as well as color of background and text)Color is not the sole means of conveying informationNot all of the content will be readable as read aloud speech or dynamic brailleTable of contents to all chapters of the text via linksNo conformance information is available
- Reproduction Note:
- Electronic reproduction. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2010. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
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