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The Sun Will Come Out by Joanne Levy

The Sun Will Come Out by Joanne Levy

Twelve-year-old Bea Gelman and her best friend Frankie are planning the BEST SUMMER EVER at Camp Shalom—a sleep-away camp. But at the last minute, Frankie bows out, leaving painfully shy Bea on her own....

I Wish My Father by Lesléa New­man

I Wish My Father by Lesléa New­man

Lesléa Newman’s I Wish My Father is comprised of narrative poems about her father in the last years of his life, and retrospectively, throughout his ninety-plus years. With precision, compression, and a graceful style...