Lottery Rose, The

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Physically abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures. When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a grocery store lottery he gives it all the love and caring he’s never had. Georgie’s life changes when the courts send him to a home for boys where he will be safe. He develops a relationship with a family next door to the school where he tends to their rosebushes. Slowly, and not without pain, Georgie learns to give—and to receive—love…
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Details

Guided Reading Level
V
Accelerated Reader Level
5.6
Fiction / Nonfiction
F
Author
Hunt, Irene
Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC

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