![]() ![]() 'Holm impressively wraps pathos with comedy in this coming-of-age story, populated by a cast of vivid characters. Inspired by three time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer Holm’s own Italian American family, Penny from Heaven is a story about families-about the things that tear them apart and the things that bring them back together. Inspired by three time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer Holm s own Italian American family, Penny from Heaven is a story about families about the things that. ![]() And no one will tell Penny the truth about how her father died. Her best friend is turning into a criminal. To make matters worse, her dog, Scarlett O'Hara, is sick. For starters, she can’t go swimming because her mother’s afraid she’ll catch polio at the pool. In a compassionate story that opens in the summer of 1976, the brother-sister team behind the Babymouse and Squish series introduces 10-year-old Sunny Lewin, who is facing unwanted change on. But nothing’s that easy in Penny’s family. ![]() It’s 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. ![]() Jennifer Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor Winner is the story of a summer of adventures and secrets that will change everything, at a time in America’s history, just after World War II, when being Italian-American meant confronting prejudice because you'd been the enemy not that long ago. ![]()
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