The elderly shut-in she visits once a week becomes an unexpected source of friendship and strength for 13-year-old Jenna, and each of them is eventually able to face and overcome painful aspects of her life.
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The elderly shut-in she visits once a week becomes an unexpected source of friendship and strength for 13-year-old Jenna, and each of them is eventually able to face and overcome painful aspects of her life.
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Kahl, David. Good. No dust jacket. Visiting Miss Caples by Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody, and Goyette, Cecile (Editor) uncorrected proof. Mass-market paperback. Dial Books (2000) Kahl, David Good. No dust jacket. edge wear Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket... softcover proof-176 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Visiting Miss Caples by Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody, and Goyette, Cecile (Editor) uncorrected proof. Mass-market paperback. Dial Books (2000) Kahl, David Good. No dust jacket. edge wear Sewn binding. Paper Visiting Miss Caples by Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody, and Goyette, Cecile (Editor) uncorrected proof. Mass-market paperback. Dial Books (2000) Kahl, David Good. No dust jacket. edge wear Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 176 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. UNCORRECTED PROOF Thirteen-year-old Jenna has always been a devoted second-banana to her glamorous friend Liv. Ninety-year-old Elspeth Caples is a fragile shut-in eclipsed by a past filled with wrong turns and missed opportunities. Jenna has just begun her dreaded participation in a class project she and her friends call "fossil-sitting." So far this has meant being trapped in a dusty room reading heroic-pet stories to one Miss Elspeth Caples, a strange old lady determined to ignore her existence. But when, in desperation, Jenna decides to tell her "audience" about her rapidly unraveling life, everything changes--inside and out of that dusty room. In this beautifully layered story of friendships--gained, lost, changed--members of the "whatever" and the "fossil" generations embark on a tenderly funny, frequently awkward journey full of unsettling, exhilarating discoveries that make life at any age captivating and worthwhile. "In Visiting Miss Caples, one generation reaches out movingly to another at that scary, necessary moment when you declare your independence, and begin to look around for your life."--Richard Peck, 1998 Newbery Honor winner
Add this copy of Visiting Miss Caples to cart. $36.02, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Dial.
