01378cam a2200301 i 4500 203238370 TxGeo 20150210120000.0 140728s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780763670030 hbk. 0763670030 hbk. (OCoLC)869527060 TxGeo rda Parenteau, Shirley. Ship of dolls / Shirley Parenteau. First edition. Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2014. 258 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns that the girl who writes the best letter to accompany the doll will be sent to the farewell ceremony in San Francisco, she knows she just has to be the winner. 20150629. Dolls Fiction. Letter writing Fiction. Contests Fiction. QS5