Gingersnap
By: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780375838910; 9780375938917; 9780307980298
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Orphans; Cooking; Family life; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Ghosts; JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General; Missing in action; History
Description: When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.