Leaving Emma

By Nancy Steele Brokaw

Subjects: Self-reliance, fiction, Family life, Self-reliance, Great-aunts, Fiction, Illinois, fiction, Children's fiction, Artists, fiction, Family, fiction, Schools, fiction, Artists, Best friends, Friendship, fiction, Family life, fiction, Schools

Description: Fifth-grader Emma faces many unpleasant changes as her best friend prepares to move away, her father goes to Turkey for five months, and her mother starts college, but with the help of her great-aunt Grace, Emma becomes a lot more independent and self-reliant.