Loose Threads

By Lorie Ann Grover

Subjects: Patients, Grandmothers, Death, Junior high schools, Mothers, poetry, Cancer, Children's poetry, Children's poetry, American, American poetry, Poetry, Juvenile poetry, Breast, Mothers and daughters

Description: A series of poems describes how seventh-grader Kay Garber faces her grandmother's battle with breast cancer while living with her mother and great-grandmother and dealing with everyday junior high school concerns.