Dragonfly Secret

By Carolyn J. Gold

Will a mysterious fairy keep Nathan's family together or tear it apart?Nathan and Jessie love their cantakerous grandfather, who lives with them, but their aunt feels he should be in a nursing home,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068931938X
• ISBN13: 9780689319389
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 4.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Delightful, Heartwarming Tale

Carlyn Gold has a gift of making you see and feel things through the eyes of children. Nathan and Jessie are caught up in a struggle between their mother's and aunt's differing opinions about what is best for their beloved Gramps. You sense their helplessness and fear in realizing their lives may be changed forever when their aunt sends a psychologist to their home to do an evaluation on Gramps. But when Gramps finds a very special dragonfly, it changes all of their lives. I found this story to be true to life in showing the changes in the dynamics of the relationship between elderly parents and their adult children. I also found myself feeling like a child right along with Jessie and Nathan over the wonderment of the dragonfly. The only criticism I have is the ending seemed lacking. Otherwise, it is a terrific book!