Title: Gingersnap
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.
Subjects: History, Brothers and sisters, Orphans, Cooking, Family life, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Ghosts, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General, Missing in action, Ghost stories, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Family life, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Cooking, fiction, Ghosts, fiction
Places: New York (State)
Time periods: 20th century