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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