Holding on

A young girl spends song-filled summers with her music-loving grandmother in the Philippines, but when her beloved Lola starts slipping into silence and stillness, the girl helps her grandmother hold on with music and the joyful memories the songs bring.

About the author

Sophia N. Lee grew up in the Philippines. She wanted to be many things growing up: doctor, teacher, ballerina, ninja, crime-fighting international spy, wizard, time traveler, journalist, and lawyer. She likes to think she can be all these things and more through writing. She is the author of Soaring Saturdays; What Things Mean, which won a Scholastic Asian Book Award’s grand prize; Holding On; and Lolo’s Sari-sari Store. Learn more about her at SophiaLeeWrites.com.

Isabel Roxas is the author-illustrator of The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens. She was born in the Philippines and raised on luscious mangoes, old wives’ tales, and monsoon moons. She learned so much from her lolas Fe and Venancia: how to shine the floor with a coconut, navigate a palengke (wet market), and make a scrumptious bowl of ginataan. Learn more about Isabel online at StudioRoxas.com or on Instagram @StudioRoxas.

Product details

• Authors: Sophia N Lee, Sophia N. Lee
• Assisted by: Isabel Roxas (Illustration)
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2022
• EAN: 9781534494459
• ISBN: 978-1-5344-9445-9
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 313 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 475 g
• Subject: Children's and young people's books