A collection of short stories in which young people extend help to those around them while trying to find hopeful answers to life's problems.
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Angela Johnson is the author of several picture books and highly acclaimed novels for young readers, including <i>Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street</i> and two Coretta Scott King Award winners: <i>Heaven</i> and <i>Toning the Sweep</i>.<br>
Meet Sweetness, who has saved an abandoned baby and held up a convenience store, both on the same day. And Starr, who arrives on her Day-Glo orange bicycle to baby-sit for a summer ― and changes a family forever. And Victor, who cannot hear but sees clearly that his brother and sister will soon learn to fly.<br> <br>In 12 taut, emotional stories, Angela Johnson explores the hardship, hope, and surprising acts of compassion in the lives of young people gone from home.
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