Written by: Jennifer L. Holm
First line: Me-me says that Heaven is full of fluffy white clouds and angels.
Why you should read this book: Penny lives with her mother and her grandparents, who are quiet and normal and plain American, but she loves her late father's boisterous and noisy extended Italian family, who treat her like a princess even though the two sides of her family don't get along at all. But Penny has all kind of questions that no one really wants to answer, like why does her uncle live in his car, and why does her cousin Frankie have so many good ideas that turns out badly, and how did her father really die? This complex, moving story about a girl caught between two worlds in the 1950s is a quiet but gripping tale that draws the reader in to Penny's experience as she moves around the town she's always known, but is still discovering.
Why you shouldn't read this book: You don't believe in telling kids the truth about things that make you sad.
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