I loved Blue Skies so much I couldn't bear for it to end!'-Patricia Reilly Giff, Newbery Honor author of Lily's Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods 'Readers are sure to fall in love with the delightful and inventive Glory Bea, and with the entire cast of this wonderful story. When the Gladiola Gazette reports that one of the boxcars from the Merci Train (the 'thank you' train)-a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of France-will be stopping in Gladiola, she just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo.īut miracles, like people, are always changing, until at last they find their way home. Glory Bea understands what Mama and Grams and Grandpa say-that Daddy died a hero on Omaha Beach-yet deep down in her heart, she believes Daddy is still out there. The war ended three years ago, but Glory Bea's father never returned home from the front in France. Now, Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own.

After all, her grandmother-the best matchmaker in the whole county-is responsible for thirty-nine of them. Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. But miracles, like people, are always changing, until at last they find their way home.Description For fans of Kate DiCamillo's Louisiana's Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own-her father's return home. When the Gladiola Gazette reports that one of the boxcars from the Merci Train (the ' thank you' train)a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of Francewill be stopping in Gladiola, she just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo. Glory Bea understands what Mama and Grams and Grandpa saythat Daddy died a hero on Omaha Beachyet deep down in her heart, she believes Daddy is still out there.

After all, her grandmotherthe best matchmaker in the whole countyis responsible for thirty-nine of them.

For fans of Kate DiCamillo's Louisiana's Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very ownher father's return home.Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421.

Far Out! by Anne Bustard