I finished Gossamer over the weekend. What a great book! For students interested in reading it, the Lexile is 660 and it has an eight-point Reading Counts! quiz. Throughout the book, you find yourself rooting for Littlest and pulling together various story lines to make one, great plot.I began Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm after ending Gossamer. So far, I like it very much. It has a Lexile of 730 and a 13 point Reading Counts! quiz.
The setting of the book takes place in the 1950's. Penny is a girl whose father died when she was a baby. So far, she is recounting events that have happened as she interacts with both sides of her family: her mother's side with whom she lives and her father's side whom she visits frequently.
Penny has some underlying social problems that the book has not yet fully addressed. Sounds like she's being bullied by a girl who used to like Penny. She also struggles to get information about her father from her relatives who are not forthcoming and often try to avoid the conversation.
