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01664aam a2200325Li 4500 001 18533C948C0211EDA40A627456ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230104011844 008 150209s2016 mau 000 f eng d 020 $a 1472228383 020 $a 9781472228383 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3573.O5948 $b O54 2016 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Wood, Monica $e author. 245 14 $a The one-in-a-million Boy / $c Monica Wood. 246 3 $a One in a million boy 264 1 $a Boston ; $b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $c 2016. 300 $a 413 pages $c 21 cm 520 $a "The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?" 520 $a So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidden for decades. 520 $a One Saturday, the boy doesn't show up. Ona starts to think he's not so special after all, but then his father arrives on her doorstep, determined to finish his son's good deed. The boy's mother is not so far behind. Ona is set to discover that the world can surprise us at any age, and that sometimes sharing a loss is the only way to find ourselves again. 941 $a 1 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20230104045038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18533C948C0211EDA40A627456ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b KCP 650 $a Sons--Death 650 $a Immigrants 610 $a Fathers and Sons 655 $a FictionInitiate Another SILO Locator Search