by Karen Hesse, Julia Whelan
This is my favorite Karen Hesse novel. I haven't read it in years, but certain phrases jumped out at me as I was rereading it. As with Hesse's other novels her descriptions are the best. There were a few times I wanted a little more details though, and I didn't quite feel the passing of time as the ...
A girl who has been emotionally scarred by her father's abandonment and her grandfather's death overcomes her reluctance and helps nurse a young man back to health who is suffering from radiation poisoning from an accident at a nuclear power plant.