My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Written by Fredrik Backman
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850L
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Apr 5, 2016
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A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove. Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy–as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781501115073
    Publication Date
    April 5, 2016
    Publisher
    Atria
    Original Publication Date
    August 30, 2013
    Page Count
    372
    Audience
    Adult
    Lexile® Level
    850L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~T
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.8
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    17
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    198144
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    UG

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