Giving Up the Ghost
- ISBN-10
- 1561454230
- ISBN-13
- 9781561454235
- Series
- Giving Up the Ghost
- Category
- Cancer
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Peachtree Publishing Company
- Author
- Sheri Cooper Sinykin
Description
Thirteen-year-old Davia encounters the ghost of a long-dead young relative and comes to terms with her fears about her mother's cancer while helping to provide hospice care for her elderly, terminally ill great-aunt at a Louisiana plantation.
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