

Sauerkraut
By:
Illustrator: Paul Davey
HD Schenk is a maker—an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He’s got a plan for the summer: he’ll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he’ll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle’s overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there’s more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About…sauerkraut?
Who knew the ghost of his great-great-grandmother was haunting an old pickling crock? She’s got a grand plan, too. She wants HD to help make her famous recipe for sauerkraut and enter it in the county fair so that she can be declared pickle queen. After some initial shock, HD is willing enough to help. This ghost is family, after all. But only HD can really see and hear his Oma, which is going to make it hard for her to win on her own…
Black-and-white illustrations.
ISBN: 9781524765965
JLG Release: Feb 2020
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Book Details
ISBN
9781524765965
First Release
February 2020
Genre
Fic
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Page Count
288
Accelerated Reader
Level 0; Points: 0;
Scholastic Reading Counts
Level 0; Points: 0;
Lexile
Level 750L
Format
Print Book
Edition
Library edition with trade jacket added
Publisher
Knopf
Potentially Sensitive Areas
None
Topics
Inventors, Great-great-grandmothers, Ghosts, Family life, Sauerkraut, Friendship, Family history, Summer, Computers, County fairs,