The ACB with Honora Lee

What's an "ACB"? It's a mixed-up alphabet book nine-year-old Perry is making for her Gran, Honora Lee, who has lost her husband and most of her memory and who lives at the Santa Lucia rest home, where Perry loves to visit on Thursday afternoons and any other day she can. New Zealanders De Goldi and O'Brien have collaborated on a book that looks like no other on our Middle Reader shelves: a little paperback with O'Brien's sprightly drawings and De Goldi's sweet and deadpan-funny tale, which has an equal appreciation for the odd comedy of language and for the residents of the Santa Lucia. A book for the most language-loving and deadpan-funny of young (and old) readers. (9 and up)