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The Lottery Rose

By - Hunt, Irene
Floor - Floor 3
Published - C. Scribner's Sons, New York, ©1976
ISBN 10 - 0425182797
ISBN 13 - 9780425182796
Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Child abuse
Shelf No - 3
Call Number - 813 HUN
Physical Description - 185 pages ; 22 cm
Book Information
The Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly presents the story of a young boy from a troubled family who learns what it means to love... 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 begins to open up for him when the courts send him to a home for boys where he will be safe. Slowly, and not without pain, Georgie learns to give--and to receive--love...

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