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Ten Beautiful Things
Ten Beautiful Things | Molly Griffin
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A heartfelt story of changing perspectives, set in the Midwest. Ten Beautiful Things gently explores loss, a new home, and finding beauty wherever you are. Lily and her grandmother search for ten beautiful things as they take a long car ride to Iowa and Lily's new home with Gran. At first, Lily sees nothing beautiful in the April slush and cloudy sky. Soon though, Lily can see beauty in unexpected places, from the smell of spring mud to a cloud shaped like a swan to a dilapitated barn. A furious rainstorm mirrors Lily's anxiety, but as it clears Lily discovers the tenth beautiful thing: Lily and Gran and their love for each other. Ten Beautiful Things leaves the exact cause of Lily's move ambiguous, making it perfect for anyone helping a child navigate change, whether it be the loss of a parent, entering or leaving a foster home, or moving.
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mandarchy
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Not a counting book. This book introduces a great strategy for facing situational depression such as grief. Every 6 seconds a child loses a primary caregiver to covid, something I learned by Googling "global orphanhood". We need to pause and consider how all of us are grieving. How all of us need to count beautiful things when necessary.

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LibrarianRyan
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Gram and Lily are going for a long car ride. Lily is going to live with Gram. We don‘t know why, it‘s never mentioned. Gram‘s makes a game of finding 10 beautiful things. This book should be a staple in libraries, and in child resource centers, or anyplace that needs to place a child with their grandparent. I spend quite a bit of time living with my grams in between base transfers, so maybe I feel this book more than other will.

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Book 7 of 150. #bookly