| Description |
12 books (330, 7, 15 pages ; 20 cm) + 1 book discussion guide (in binder), in bag. |
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Novel |
| Note |
Includes reading group guide (pages [2]-7). |
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Includes an excerpt from "Today will be different" (pages 2-15). |
| Summary |
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle, and people in general, has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the Earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles e-mail messages, official documents, secret correspondence, creating a touching novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her imperfect mother. |
| Audience |
HL820L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader UG 5.4 13 161015 |
| Original Version |
Originally published in hardcover by Little, brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. |
| Subject |
Women architects -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Phobias -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Fiction.
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Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction.
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Antarctica -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
BOOK CLUB IN A BAG
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| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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| Added Title |
Where did you go, Bernadette. |
| ISBN |
9780316204279 |
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