My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
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A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.

When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

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Street Date:
06/16/2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781442389557
Accelerated Reader:
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Level 5.8, 17 Points
Lexile measure:
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Fredrik Backman. (2015). My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

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Fredrik Backman. 2015. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.

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Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.

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Fredrik Backman. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.

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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.
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When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

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