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Leah Komaiko

Autor(a) de Annie Bananie

22 Works 1,046 Membros 13 Críticas

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Obras por Leah Komaiko

Annie Bananie (1987) 354 exemplares
Earl's Too Cool for Me (1988) 227 exemplares
I Like the Music (1987) 66 exemplares
Just My Dad and Me (1845) 44 exemplares
Leonora O'Grady (1992) 18 exemplares
My Perfect Neighborhood (1990) 15 exemplares
Malibu Carmie (2005) 13 exemplares
Shoeshine Shirley (1993) 12 exemplares
Where Can Daniel Be? (1994) 12 exemplares
On Sally Perry's Farm (1996) 12 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female

Membros

Críticas

Independent reading level: Grades 3rd-5th
Awards: N/A
 
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Kcharriott | 3 outras críticas | Dec 6, 2022 |
 
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lcslibrarian | 2 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2020 |
 
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lcslibrarian | 2 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2020 |
A great find at a local library sale, AM I OLD YET? is children's author Leah Komaiko's touching tale of her unlikely friendship with a woman nearly fifty years her senior. Leah is paired with Adele through a volunteer "senior adoption" program. The author turned 45 while writing the book, so the title question is for her rhetorical, or maybe tongue-in-cheek. Not for me though. I know I'm OLD now. And since the book was written in 1999, well, by now so is SHE. There are plenty of humorous moments here, but a lot of what's here made me wince in recognition too, because I was remembering my mom's last year's and months in a similar place to Adele's "Chateau" for seniors. And also mentally taking stock of my own situation. But Adele, in addition to being very old, was utterly alone, and also completely blind. Leah, divorced, childless and lonely, was surprised at how much their friendship came to mean to her, and how much she could learn from Adele.

Enough said. I was touched and greatly moved by this story, and will highly recommend it, especially to my OLD friends.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER
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TimBazzett | 2 outras críticas | Jul 19, 2019 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
22
Membros
1,046
Popularidade
#24,628
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
13
ISBN
76
Línguas
4

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