A Song Called Home
by Sara Zarr
Pub Date 22 Feb 2022
HarperCollins Children's Books, Balzer + Bray
Children's Fiction | Middle Grade
I am reviewing a copy of A Song Called Home through HarperCollins Children’s Books, Bakker + Bray and Netgalley:
Lou and her family do not have much, but for Lou it is enough, she doesn’t need a lot. She has her Mom, her sister Casey. They have their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if they didn't have to worry about money all the time. But Lou doesn’t need better she only needs enough.
But what is enough for Lou, however, is not enough for Mom. Steve, Mom's boyfriend, isn’t a bad guy, he's just not what Lou is used to. Now her Mom and her boyfriend are getting married and that means they have to move. It feels like they are packing up the life they had once known and storing it in Steve’s Garage. Lou will be separated from everything in her small but predictable life, farther from Dad than ever.
On her last night in the city Lou receives a mysterious birthday gift: A guitar, left for her by their front door. There’s nothing saying who left it, but it must be from Dad. As she leaves the only place she has ever known she starts to believe that if she can learn how to play it, maybe she can bring a piece of him, and of her old life, home.
I give A Song Called Home five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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