The Lottery Rose

The Lottery Rose

<b>The Newbery Award-winning author of <i>Across Five Aprils</i> and <i>Up a Road Slowly</i> presents the story of a young boy from a troubled family who learns what it means to love…<br><br></b>Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures.<br><br>When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a grocery store lottery he gives it all the love and caring he’s never had. Georgie’s life begins to open up for him when the courts send him to a home for boys where he will be safe. Slowly, and not without pain, Georgie learns to give—and to receive—love...