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An edition of Missing May (1989)

Missing May

and related readings

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  • 3.0 (1 rating)
  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

For use in teaching literature to high school students.

Twelve-year-old Summer finds a home with relatives after her mother dies. After Summer's Aunt May dies suddenly, Summer and Uncle Ob try to establish contact with her spirit, only to learn that it lives within each of them.

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Publisher
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Pages
68

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Subjects

Grief Death Joy and sorrow Aunts Juvenile fiction Fiction Aunts in fiction Grief in fiction West Virginia in fiction Death in fiction Newbery Medal Children's fiction West virginia, fiction Grief, fiction Death, fiction Readers (Secondary) Criticism and interpretation Girls, fiction Mystery and detective stories

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Cynthia Rylant

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West Virginia

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Missing May: and related readings
2000, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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Missing May
May 2, 1996, Laurel Leaf
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Missing May
1996, Bantam Doubleday/Dell Yearling
in English
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Missing May (Yearling Newbery)
September 1, 1993, Yearling
in English
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Missing May
1992, Orchard Books
in English

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Table of Contents

Missing May -- Cynthia Rylant
World is not a pleasant place to be -- Nikki Giovanni
His just due -- Cynthia Rylant
Story that could be true -- William Stafford
Valentine for Ernest Mann -- Naomi Shihab Nye
Mother -- Grace Paley
Girl who married a ghost -- Grace Paley
Crossing the bar -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, N.Y
Series
The Glencoe literature library
Other Titles
The world is not a pleasant place to be., His just due., A story that could be true., Valentine for Ernest Mann., Mother., The girl who married a ghost., Crossing the bar.

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Pagination
[iii], 68 p. ;
Number of pages
68

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24940036M
ISBN 10
0078214157
ISBN 13
9780078214158
OCLC/WorldCat
61728915

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL64053W

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Work Description

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

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