I'm looking forward to sharing it with our community of readers. An endearing story about love, family, adoption and identity. While the issues are complex, the reader isn't overwhelmed by the themes. This novel is geared towards older elementary, early middle schoolers. The intimacy of Jack's letters to Marley and the immediacy of the present tense translates the emotion and conflict here in a particularly effective way. Through a combination of fragments of her past shared in Jack's letters, memories and her mother's personal items, Marley processes the news of who her real parents are in her time in her own way. The revelation about who she is a big adjustment. He says it must be really hard to hate people you've loved your whole life. But her friend Bobby (a character from another Johnson novel, _First Part Last_) reminds Marley what hasn't changed: her family loves her and she has friends who support her. Then one day, a letter from Alabama changes her life forever. There's never been any real drama in her life in Heaven, a small town that lives up to its name. In Heaven and The First Part Last, Angela Johnson explores the meaning of family and of parent-child relationships. Marley lives with two loving parents and her brother, Butchy. Johnson I was eager to read more of her younger reader titles.
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