Author(s): Patricia MacLachlan
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 119
Publisher: KATHERINE TEGEN BOOKS
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-02-07
Dimensions: 142.24 x 205.74 x 20.32mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
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With the sure touch she brought to the beloved Newbery Medal winner Sarah, Plain and Tall, in Kindred Souls Patricia MacLachlan guides children into the understanding that death is a natural part of life.

Ten-year-old Jake has always been close to his grandfather Billy--so close that Jake's mother calls them kindred souls. Each morning, Jake and Billy take a walk around the family farm. Billy often tells Jake stories of living in a sod house on the prairie.

When Billy goes into the hospital, Jake decides the best gift he can give his beloved grandfather is a sod house. Billy moves to the sod house when he leaves the hospital and spends his last days living there.