Author: Ellen Yeomans
Narrator: Chelsea Mixon, Full Cast
Unabridged: 1 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 01/01/2009
Kit is a typical teenage girl happily engaged in school and family life. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are deeply bonded. Despite their age difference, they're connected by a love of baseball and math. Then Kit learns that Buddy has been diagnosed with cancer.
The poems that follow capture both devastating loss and the beginnings of recovery in spare, lyrical verse that throbs with raw emotional power.
©2007 Ellen Yeomans; (P)2009 Full Cast Audio
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