1472228383 
Hardback The one-in-a-million boy / Monica Wood.
Publication year: 2017
Language: English
Media type Hardback
Publisher: Headline Review
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 1472228383 9781472228383 (pbk.) :
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Originally published: 2016.
Extent: 406 pages ; 20 cm
Available: 1
Total number of loans: 1
Loans this year: 0
Number of reservations: 0
Description:
Miss Ona Vitkus has - aside from three months in the summer of 1914 - lived unobtrusively, her secrets fiercely protected. The boy, with his passion for world records, changes all that. He is 11. She is 104 years, 133 days old (they are counting). And he makes her feel like she might be really special after all. Better late than never - only it's been two weeks now since he last visited, and she's starting to think he's not so different from all the rest. Then the boy's father comes, for some reason determined to finish his son's good deed. And Ona must show this new stranger that not only are there odd jobs to be done, but a life's ambition to complete.
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Unlike the previous reviewer, I found this a very moving and warm hearted book about how the lives of two bereaved parents can be mended after tragedy. You just have to read the reviews in the front of the paperback edition to realise that this novel is worth reading.
22/06/19