By Jennifer L Holm
Twelve year old Penny spends her summers at both her overprotective mother and her dead father's large and eccentric Italian family. Neither side are on speaking terms and no one will talk about Penny's father's death. Set in New Jersey in the 1950s, Penny from Heaven is a nostalgic and slow-paced novel about the importance of family.
Genre Coming-of-age stories; Historical fiction.
Appeal elements Issue-oriented; Nostalgic; Slow-paced
Lexile 730
Ages 7-13
Publisher information New York: Random House Children's Books 2006; 288 p.
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