Just Like Josh Gibson Jan-2004 / General Fiction The story goes. But Michaela loves her brother, Red, even more. The sights, sounds, and smells of her coastal home are embedded in her very soul. I've been quiet the last few days 'cause I'm waiting to hear.' While the elegiac pace and impressionistic prose may challenge many readers, those mourning a loss are likely to find Mike's incisive observations familiar and comforting. Chloe Chrisley ’s birth mother, Angela Johnson, wants custody of her daughter back from Todd and Julie Chrisley following their respective prison sentences. Twelve-year-old Mike - short for Michaela - loves the ocean. Mike finds solace in intermittent visions of her brother and memories that emerge from the silence with which she often surrounds herself: 'I've been listening again to things not spoken. As Mike and Mona had cheered them on, Mark had struck a deal to give Red his car if Red swam from shore to a buoy and back-but Red disappeared under the water in the attempt.

The military took me to California, Louisiana, and Maryland while Angela stayed. A rallying cry for girls to reject limitations others might place on them and. Once the two arrived in the Lowcountry, John and Angela knew they had found their forever home, but John was still on active duty. Sometimes when girls dream big, people say that they shouldn’t be doing that. Mike (short for Michaela) initially tells readers, simply and rather enigmatically, that 'one day my brother, Red, just disappeared from us forever.' Yet as Mike, a middle-schooler, weaves scattered recollections of time spent with her sibling into an affecting account of how she, her parents and Red's closest friends, Mona and Mark, are dealing with their pain, she slowly brings the particulars of the tragedy into focus: only in the conclusion do readers learn of Mike, Mona and Mark's private burden of guilt. Read A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson available from Rakuten Kobo. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Nina Crews (9781541557772) A group of girls share their dreams with the reader in this picture book. 'I think it's like walking barefoot in a room full of broken glass, when someone you love goes away,' notes the bereaved young narrator of Johnson's ( Heaven) penetrating novel set in a seaside town on Cape Cod.