02532cam a2200397 i 4500 623840390 TxAuBib 20220315120000.0 210406s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021016240 9781324017097 hardcover 1324017090 hardcover (OCoLC)1196173758 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda WC4 rda DLC ILC OCLCO IUL OCLCF GZD TxAuBib WC4 ILC OCLCO IUL OCLCF GZD TxAuBib rda Baitie, Elizabeth-Irene, author. Crossing the Stream / By Elizabeth-Irene Baitie. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. 220 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Accord Books.". Ato hasn't visited his grandmother's house since he was seven. He's heard the rumors that she's a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his grandmother has given him, wondering if the rumors are true. What's more, there's a freshly dug hole in her yard that Ato suspects may be a grave meant for him.Meanwhile at school, Ato and his friends have entered a competition to win entry to Nnoma, the island bird sanctuary that Ato's father helped created. But something is poisoning the community garden where their project is housed, and Ato sets out to track down the culprit. In doing so, he brings his estranged mother and grandmother back together, and begins healing the wounds left on the family by his father's death years before.And that hole in the yard? It is a grave, but not for the purpose Ato feared, and its use brings a tender, celebratory ending to this deeply felt and universal story of healing and love from one of Ghana's most admired children's book authors. Ages 9-12 Norton Young Readers. Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 8 517076. 20220315. Families Ghana Juvenile fiction. Fathers Death Fiction. Grandmothers Juvenile fiction. Self-realization Juvenile fiction. Accra (Ghana) Juvenile fiction. Bildungsromans lcgft. Fiction. TXKPL