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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2014 | Grades and Up
Gr 7 Up—Louisa and her sister are brought to Pennsylvania by their widowed father to live in the home of his once-estranged, now-deceased parents. Louisa soon begins receiving calls from her dead grandmother through an old telephone in the attic. The calls share family secrets and events that took place in Sweden during World War II. It is through these phone calls that the narrative jumps between present day to the past. Louisa is a sweet-natured, somewhat introspective teenager who is still grieving from the loss of her mother, trying to figure out how to open up to her fath...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Louisa's mother has died, and her family moves to her father's Pennsylvania hometown. When a disconnected phone in the attic rings, Lo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More