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Calling Me Home
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Calling Me Home
140 pages · First published 1998
A young girl faces a painful goodbye when family circumstances threaten to separate her from someone or something central to her sense of home. The prospect of change forces her to confront grief before she feels ready and to find words for emotions adults cannot simply fix. Relationships within the family become the source of both conflict and reassurance as departure approaches. Patricia Hermes writes with a middle-grade focus on loss, transition, and the difficult discovery that saying goodbye does not erase the love attached to what is being left behind.
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Death, grief, and loss
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