Bravo Zulu, Samantha! by Kathleen Benner Duble


We read this one during consortium.

'Decidedly unenthusiastic about spending part of her summer vacation with her grandparents, twelve-year-old Samantha is particularly upset by her prickly grandfather's secretive behavior and decides to find out what he is hiding."

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