Danielle Snyder's summer of babysitting turns into one of overwhelming guilt and sadness when Humphrey, her five-year-old charge is killed suddenly. Danielle gets caught up in the machinery of tragedy: police investigations, neighborhood squabbling, and, when the driver of the car that struck Humphrey turns out to be an undocumented alien, a politically charged immigration debate. Wanting only to mourn the sweet little boy she grew to love, Danielle tries to avoid the world around her, until a new and unexpected friendship with Justin, a boy she meets at the park, helps her find a way to preserve Humphrey's memory, stand up for what she believes in, and find her own path to forgiveness.
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Before becoming a children's book writer, Debbie Levy was a newspaper editor and a lawyer. Her first middle-grade novel was a Junior Library Guild selection and she is also the author of many books about famous people, fascinating places and historical events. Stephanie Buscema is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist who has worked on everything from comic
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