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The lonely heart of Maybelle Lane / Kate O'Shaughnessy.

Summary:

Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring out of the car radio. Going against Momma's wishes, Maybelle starts listening to her radio DJ daddy's new show, drinking in every word like a plant leaning toward the sun. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. What better way to meet than to stand before him and sing with all her heart? But the road to Nashville is bumpy. Her starch-stiff neighbor Mrs. Boggs offers to drive her in her RV. And a bully of a boy from the trailer park hitches a ride, too. These are not the people May would have chosen to help her, but it turns out they're searching for things as well. And the journey will mold them into the best kind of family--the kind you choose for yourself.

Record details

ISBN: 9781984893833
ISBN: 1984893831
ISBN: 9781984893840
ISBN: 198489384X
Physical Description: 282 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Target Audience Note:	680L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 9 511235.