Boundless Grace
by:
Mary Hoffman (author)
This sequel to AMAZING GRACE is sure to receive a warm welcome from readers who remember the spunky heroine as well as those who are meeting Grace for the first time. In a moving new story, Grace is reunited with the father she barely remembers. He left home when she was very small and now lives...
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This sequel to AMAZING GRACE is sure to receive a warm welcome from readers who remember the spunky heroine as well as those who are meeting Grace for the first time. In a moving new story, Grace is reunited with the father she barely remembers. He left home when she was very small and now lives in Africa with his new wife and children. Naturally, Grace feels strange when he invites her to visit. Nana is with her to offer support and advice, and Papa and his new family do their best to make her w..elcome. But Grace begins to feel pulled apart and wonders if she can cope with two families. When Nana tells her "families are what you make them," she helps Grace to deal with a dilemma shared by millions of children whose parents no longer live together. Grace learns to love all of her family members and she learns a great deal about Africa in the meantime.
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ISBN:
9780590737913
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Scholastic
Edition language: Polski
This is a sequel to Amazing Grace. In this story, Grace receives plane tickets to Africa where her is located. Grace realizes that although she loves the idea of having a family where her mother and father are in one place, she likes the way things are. This would be another great story to touch on ...
This story continues the story of Grace, from Amazing Grace. This one tells the story of her and her journey to see her father. As well as, her coming to terms that she doesn't have the same type of family as everyone else. We used this in my CT's class to infer about how Grace was feeling throughou...
My first day of placement this semester, my cooperating teacher used this book in her whole group lesson. The book is about a girl named Grace and Grace lives with her mom and grandmother. Once day, Grace sees a family that has a mom, child, and a father. Grace then begins to think that her family i...
This book is just great! I recently used it in a lesson. We discussed inferences and used the beautiful illustrations to talk about how we can infer the characters' feelings based on facial expressions and such. Also we discussed the truth that "families are what you make them," as this is freque...
This was a really good book. I recommend this book for 1st-5th grade, with the older children answering more complex questions about the message of the book. I think that this could be used in many ways in the classroom. One way I have used it with my students was to teach that there are many diff...