When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
year: 2013, 2014
call number/section: 1000
subjects: brothers and sisters, juvenile fiction, cooking, families, new york (state), ghost stories, missing in action, new york (state), history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, siblings, fiction, family life, orphans, world war, 1939-1945, cookery, ghosts, family, historical fiction
Editions
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Wendy Lamb Books (2013)
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
Schools: 10
Giff, Patricia Reilly
A Yearling Book (2014)
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
Schools: 3
Giff, Patricia Reilly
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn.
Schools: 31