Gold Star Sister
By: by Claire Rudolf Murphy.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780140377446
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Grandmothers -- Fiction.; Cancer -- Fiction.; Death -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
First sentence: "Gram, I'm here."
Description: Gram, sick with cancer, is moving in with the O'Learys. But Carrie doesn't mind. In fact, she loves to listen to her grandmother reminisce. Then Carrie discovers Gram's "Billy box," full of forgotten letters -- and an astonishing family secret. Who was Billy, and what happened to him during World War II? When Carrie comes across an unopened letter addressed to a soldier's infant son, she's determined to locate him as a gift for her dying Gram. But time is running out.
Notes: A Puffin Book.
Cover art by Victoria Kann.
Description from book cover.