03057cam a2200493 i 4500 1545878975 TxAuBib 20240829120000.0 180927s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018959670 9780763694630 0763694630 (OCoLC)1053888270 TxAuBib rda DiCamillo, Kate, author. Louisiana's way home / Kate DiCamillo. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018. 227 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Companion to: Raymie Nightingale. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, twelve-year-old Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and her eccentric grandmother) and find a way home. When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana figures that it is only a matter of time before Granny changes her mind and they come back home. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and to find a way to return home. But as Louisiana's life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of Richford, Georgia - including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder - she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes. (Which could be due to the curse on Louisiana's and Granny's heads. But that is a story for another time.) Called "one of DiCamillo's most singular and arresting creations" by the New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale, and now, with humor and tenderness, Kate DiCamillo returns to tell her story. -- From dust jacket. 630L Lexile. Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 100 (very high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 5.0. 20240829. A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.) Grandmothers United States Juvenile fiction. Grandparent and child Juvenile fiction. Moving, Household Juvenile fiction. Coming of age Fiction. Identity Fiction. Families Fiction. Secrets Fiction. Moving, Household Fiction. Home Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Grandmothers Fiction. Fiction. fast Juvenile works. fast