Emeralds Included: A Jana Bibi Adventure

Name: Emeralds Included: A Jana Bibi Adventure
Author: Betsy Woodman
ISBN: 9780805093582

by Betsy Woodman

Feathers fly and cultures clash as the Jolly Grant House prepares to welcome a special delivery from Scotland In the third installment of the Jana Bibi series, Betsy Woodman takes us back to the Jolly Grant house for the arrival of Jana's son, Jack, from Scotland, and his Hungarian bride-to-be, Katarina Esterhazy. The whole gang is excited to welcome their international visitors—and Jana is determined to repair the house to Jack's high standards and those of her grandfather, from whom she inherited the eccentric building. But this puts a strain on Jana, both emotionally and financially, and she risks her most prized and valuable possession—the (surprisingly real!) emeralds she got from the Treasure Emporium—to help her through it.…

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"In Betsy Woodman’s first Jana Bibi book, the Indo-Scottish violin teacher hires the town bagpiper to scare off wild monkeys from the home she inherited in the imaginary Indian town of Hamara Nagar. In Emeralds Included, the series’ third book, Jana has another problem: Her stodgy son, Jack, and his fiance are coming for a visit and Jana is determined to fix up the wonky house before they arrive. She somehow manages to get it all done — and during the visit learns that Jack is much more endearing than she thought. Woodman’s character development is so good that by the end, the memorable townspeople of Hamara Nagar felt more like good friends than characters from a book."

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